Blackmail Lyrics

Lyric discussion by D. Dodge Silver 

Cover art for Blackmail lyrics by Robert Palmer

No matter where you look, the line after "before I could thank ya, mama" is always just "???."

My best guess is, "I was running an account of my own," as he was now accepting money from the husband to testify at their divorce. So, now he was engaging in his own blackmail scheme.

My other guess was "I was running outta town on the road."