Nightwatchman The Fabled City
Me and Javier shouted slogan in Spanish
Like it was our World to win
Then they moved the plant down Ojada
Time to bite your tongue again
I've seen the fabled city.
Its streets are paved with gold
But an iron fence runs 'round it
And its iron gate is closed...
What ain't right, ain't right he told me
But something else passed behind his eyes
Now he's downtown on his knees
Washing floors for somebody
And quietly biding his time
I've seen the fabled city.
Its streets are paved with gold
But an iron fence runs 'round it
And its iron gate is closed...
Huh!
At the gas staton on sunset and crescent
I met an angel sad and old
She lived in the alley
Behind the market
In the shadows maybe hidden from the Lord
And for a dollar, she sang a song
Sounded, more like a prayer
I wish that her dead mother and father
Couldn't look down and see her there
I've seen the fabled city.
Its streets are paved with gold
But an iron fence runs 'round it
And its iron gate is closed...
On a wire outside my window
There sit one hundred swallows
And I suspect
That if one flew
Then ninety-nine would follow...
