Why must you record my phone calls?

Are you planning a bootleg LP?

Said you've been threatened by gangsters

Now it's you that's threatening me

Can't fight corruption with con tricks

And I dread, dread to think what the future will bring

When we're living in gangster time

Don't call me scar face

Can't interrupt while I'm talking

Or they'll confiscate all your guitars

And Catch-22 says if I sing the truth

They won't make me an overnight star

Don't offer us legal protection

I dread to think what the future will bring

When we're living in real gangster time