text: The big man arrives
  Disco dancers greet him
  Plainclothes cops greet him
  Small town, big man, fresh lipstick glistening
  Sophomore jive
  From victims of typewriters
  The band sounds like typewriters
  The big man hes not listening
  His eyes hold edith
  His left hand holds his right
  What does that hand desire
  That he grips it so tight
  Edith in the ring
  The passed-over girls are conferring
  The man with the diamond ring is purring
  All claws for now withdrawn
  One by one they bring
  His renegade stories to her
  His crimes and his glories to her
  In challenge they look on
  Women he has wanted grow old too soon
  He tilts their tired faces
  Gently to the spoon
  Edith in his bed
  A plane in the rain is humming
  The wires in the walls are humming
  Some song-some mysterious song
  Bars in her head
  Beating frantic and snowblind
  Romantic and snowblind
  She says-his crime belongs
  Edith and the kingpin
  Each with charm to sway
  Are staring eye to eye
  They dare not look away
  You know they dare not look away