[Intro:] Bernie Rhodes knows; don't argue! Why must you record my phone calls? Are you planning a bootleg L-P? Said you've been threatened by gangsters; Now it's you that's threatening me. Can't fight cor-ruption with con tricks, They use the law to commit crime. And I dread, dread to think, What the future will bring, When we're living in gangster time. Don't call me scar face! [Solo:] (x3), Can't inter-rupt while I'm talking, Or they'll confiscate all your gui-tars, And catch 22 says, if I sing the truth; They won't make me an overnight star. Don't offer us legal pro-tection, They use the law to commit crime. And I dread, dread to think, What the future will bring, When we're living in gangster time. (Bernie Rhodes knows; don't argue!)