Released: October 13, 1992
Songwriter: Tina Weymouth Jerry Harrison David Byrne Chris Frantz
Producer: Nick Launay Steve Lillywhite
Gangster of love
Gangster of love
You with the cocktail in your hand
You in your red Mercedes-Benz
Goin' in one ear and out the other
Cover up the pain with laughter, baby
I'm not laughing
I'm not laughing
Hey, Al Capone
Is that who you think you are?
All the girls all around the world
Well, they wanna shake your hand
It won't be long
You'll need an alibi
A little bird told me what he'd heard
Is it really true?
Gangster of love
Gangster of love
I'm gonna take you for a ride
And hit you right between the eyes
You can hear the pretty music playing, well
Listen to the words, they're saying
You can hear them calling
Hear them calling
Hey, Al Capone
You'll need a bodyguard
Just like that
You'll be laid out flat with a broken heart
I shot you down
Who's gonna help you now?
Valentine's day
Better hope and pray
They'll be tearing you apart
Gangster of love
Gangster of love
Gangster of love
Gangster of love
I hear conversations
In restaurants and bars
I read all the papers
And what they say is wrong
It's such a fine, fine line
Such a fine, fine line
Gangster of love
Gangster of love
Gangster of love
Gangster of love
Gangster of love
Gangster of love
Gangster of love
Gangster of love
Gangster of love
You with the cocktail in your hand
You in your red Mercedes-Benz
Goin' in one ear and out the other
Cover up the pain with laughter, baby
I'm not laughing
I'm not laughing
Hey, Al Capone
Is that who you think you are?
All the girls all around the world
Well, they wanna shake your hand
It won't be long
You'll need an alibi
A little bird told me what he'd heard
Is it really true?
Gangster of love
Gangster of love
I'm gonna take you for a ride
And hit you right between the eyes
You can hear the pretty music playing, well
Listen to the words, they're saying
You can hear them calling
Hear them calling
Hey, Al Capone
You'll need a bodyguard
Just like that
You'll be laid out flat with a broken heart
I shot you down
Who's gonna help you now?
Valentine's day
Better hope and pray
They'll be tearing you apart
Gangster of love
Gangster of love
Gangster of love
Gangster of love
I hear conversations
In restaurants and bars
I read all the papers
And what they say is wrong
It's such a fine, fine line
Such a fine, fine line
Gangster of love
Gangster of love
Gangster of love
Gangster of love
Gangster of love
Gangster of love
Gangster of love
Gangster of love
more tracks from the album
Sand in the Vaseline: Popular Favorites
- Once in a Lifetime
- Blind
- Mr. Jones
- Warning Sign
- The Big Country
- Love for Sale
- City of Dreams
- Love → Building on Fire
- Sugar on My Tongue
- I Want to Live
- I Wish You Wouldn’t Say That
- Sax and Violins
- Gangster of Love
- Popsicle
- Lifetime Piling Up
- Wild Wild Life
- Memories Can’t Wait
- I Zimbra
- No Compassion
- Don’t Worry About the Government
- Psycho Killer
- Girlfriend Is Better
- Swamp
- This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
- Heaven
- Life During Wartime
- And She Was
- Stay Up Late
- Take Me to the River
- Crosseyed and Painless
- (Nothing But) Flowers
- Road to Nowhere
- Burning Down the House
From the albums
Talking Heads popular songs
- Once in a Lifetime
- Psycho Killer
- This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
- Burning Down the House
- Life During Wartime
- Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
- Road to Nowhere
- Crosseyed and Painless
- The Great Curve
- Girlfriend Is Better
- Slippery People
- (Nothing But) Flowers
- Heaven
- Take Me to the River
- And She Was
- Listening Wind
- Don’t Worry About the Government
- Seen and Not Seen
- Making Flippy Floppy
- Houses in Motion
- I Zimbra
- The Overload
- Cities
- Wild Wild Life