Back in the Day

Well

it was back in the day

Back in the 1920s

Selling hooch for the gang

Just meant large cash money

Splatter papa glamour

guns and the ledger

Post office poster stars

Around them times the pay was best

To be had

It's never as sweet

As when it's not in the open

Special secrets hold

Such a promise of…

They spilled wine in the raids

And that thirst-found morning

And taking out of the head

Just meant a line was forming

Contraband Nero

toast of the nation

Playing while his city burned

'Til they found the best way to deal

Was knowing when to say when

It's never as sweet

As when it's not in the open

Special secrets hold

Such a promise of…