Clash The Midnight Log Lyrics

Midnight Log Lyrics

Working for the devil

 You'll have to pay his tax

 That means going to see him

 Down among the racks

 You do his work so fine

 He'll remember you

 

 Worried for my friend

 As he shows me round the flat

 Where i don't wanna find him

 His lips an' eyelids black

 He don't believe my speech

 That lines can and should be drawn

 Lke if he had a shotgun

 The barrels would be sawn

 

 Swallowed by the river

 Swollen by the rains

 That leakin' ol' computer

 Of fingerprints and names

 Swimming in the river

 That floods the neighborhood

 I would call to you

 But it would do no good

 

 Voting for the law

 That's the general occupation

 First comes the public safety

 Second comes the nation

 You won't believe me now

 But there's been some illumination

 The wisest cops have realized

 They fucked the operation

 

 Cooking up the books

 A respected occupation

 The anchor and foundation of multi-corporations

 They don't believe in crime

 They don't know that it exists

 But to understand

 What's right and wrong

 The lawyers work in shifts

 

 'n speaking of the devil

 He ain't been seen for years

 'cept every 20 mins

 He zooms between me ears

 I don't believe in books

 But i read all the time

 For ciphers to the riddles

 An' reasons to the rhymes