Fabled City Lyrics

Fabled City lyrics

Me and Javier shouted slogan in Spanish

Like it was our world to win

Then they moved the plant down Ojada

Time to bite you tongue again



*chorus*

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,

washin' floors for somebody

And he's quietly biting his
toungue



*chorus*

Ha!



At the gas station on
sunset and crescent,

I met and 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

that sounded more like a
prayer

A wish that her dead mother and father

couldn't look down
and see her there.



*chorus*



On the wire outside my
window,

there sit one hundred swallows.

And I suspect that if one
flew,

then ninety nine would follow