Hetty O’Hara Confidential Elvis Costello

[Verse 1]
Hetty said, "If you ask me nicely
I'll write you up well, don't tell me twice
Or quote you directly or pay the price
I'll peel off your skin like a thin veneer
If something tells me something that I didn't hear from you"

[Refrain]
Who's got the dope? Who's got the potential?
Hetty O'Hara Confidential

[Verse 2]
Those were different days, those were different drugs
From a gold-plated palace with the half-mast flags
To a chalk lined body that was full of slugs
She was trading favors for footnote plugs
Who's got the needlе? Who is fit to burst?
A morphine tattoo, an unquenchable thirst
Who's got your girlfriend?
And who had her first?

[Refrain]
Reading her column was essential
Hetty O'Hara Confidential

[Bridge 1]
She could kill a man with a single stroke
She is not the one you want to provoke
If you can't take the heat or you can't take a joke