Sudden Death - John Cale

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

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

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

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

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