Sudden Death

[Verse 1] The conference is over and they're calling out the guard The Minister of Justice looks so tired The gunman on the roof picks his target carefully The last thing they expected to see was sudden death [Verse 2] The army was on full alert, watching everything Trying hard not to look you in the eye If what you saw wasn't what you knew and ignorance was bliss It could happen anywhere at all [Verse 3] UPI and Reuters were the first ones to the phone Full of information on the dead Frontpage rumours, man they were just, just doing their job Nothing much they could do about sudden death [Instrumental Break] [Verse 4] Somebody was talking much too loud in the village bar They pulled him out and put him down Then stood around and bragged about the way he'd died Didn't know a thing about sudden death [Verse 5] Then the ships were leaving port full of tourists in disguise They said they'd seen quite enough Didn't matter who was dead or who was alive or who'd done what They just wanted to get away from sudden death