Song Description

Description of a James-Bond type of adventure. At the end of the song the listener realizes that the narrator is making it all up.

Lyrics

Running just ahead of the devil,
Slippin? through the fingers of doom,
No one ever said it was easy,
No one ever said it would end so soon.
Lookin? at the world from the inside,
Settin? up the line of command ?
I?ve got your lives in my hands.

You should have seen me then...
Replacing H2O with liquid oxygen,
Hiding in the shadows of the boiler room,
My platoon relied on my cunning to rescue them...
Absent of fear, the hour drew near,
To free up my men to my palace built here...

In Istanbul...
A thousand rooms with chandeliers of gold and jewels,
Women wait in droves hoping they'll satisfy me for the night,
To keep them away is a constant fight...
Like streets of Hong Kong (or was it Saigon?),
It's hard to recall, my identity's gone...

I woke up late one night,
They were beating down my door,
But I slipped out of sight.
Scaled down the palace walls
and made it to the dock,
Just short of two o'clock,
But ambushed by agents behind the rocks.
And ransomed for gold, but I wouldn't be sold,
An easy escape for this spry twelve year old...

Unlike the time,
When forest flames surrounded me in Palestine.
If not for my resilience, I'd have lost my life,
But I'm all right...
Except for these scars from that prison mine.
But character builds, from perils and thrills ?
Really no match for a man of my skills.

?You?re freeing Tibet, while in Timbuktu??
Yes, foreign diplomacy's so hard to do.
"You worked for the Kremlin, but Washington too?"
Watch what you say...they might come after you.

I've never seen such rain.
40,000 feet ? dove from my air-o-plane.
The jungle has no mercy on one man alone,
Heart of stone,
The treasures of Aztecs I aimed to own.
But fate did me wrong,
My riches are gone,
So spare me some change and I'll be moving on.