Lyrics:It Never Fails
| It Never Fails |
| By: Julia Greenberg and Robin Goldwasser |
| Year: 2006 |
We're cops, we're not psychiatrists We ain't no Sigmund Freud But inside of every criminal Is an aching empty void You take your cosmetic surgeon with his fancy carving knife We get word that he's been plotting a malfeasance on his wife When the gruesome deed is done, he freaks out and calls his mom Cause the saintly woman knows just what to say to keep him calm The confession is recorded on this handy tap device Now our guy is in the clink, serving 25 to life It never fails (It never fails) It never fails (It never fails) Be them killers, cons, or felons, guys in marketing or sales There's a broken kid inside, a wounded child that he can't hide And we're fillin' up the jails, 'cause it never, ever fails You catch your counterfeit duchess with your taste for haute couture Dresses her self-loathing in Armani and Dior We stick a camera in her sweatshop where she pays her workers dirt Makes a twenty dollar knockoff from a thousand dollar shirt She realize she's busted, burns the factory to the floor Now she's wearing prison orange and her bathroom has no door It never fails (It never fails) It never fails (It never fails) You're an up and coming slumlord or the friggin' Prince of Wales There's a weak and fragile soul with a lack of self-control And we're fillin' up the jails, 'cause it never, ever fails Yes, we're fillin' up the jails, 'cause it never, ever fails Now any good detective treats his suspect with respect Nobody's a criminal by choice You can bet that every felon is a victim of neglect Alone and out of touch with his authentic inner voice Authentic inner voice Authentic inner voice You take a police detective with a wife he never sees He leaves her all alone while hunting public enemies Then Friday he comes home to take his gal out for some fun And he finds her in flagrante with enemy number one Without embraces from her husband, she embraced a life of crime Now I'm stuck here on a stakeout while my wife is doing time It never fails (It never fails) It never fails (It never fails) The devil's in the goddamn psychological details It's the pain that you can't see that's the liability And we're fillin' up the jails, 'cause it never, ever fails Yes, we're fillin' up the jails, 'cause it never, ever fails |
