Midnight In The City Of Destruction Lyrics

Midnight In The City Of Destruction lyrics

There's an old green shed at the end of an overgrown driveway

And years
ago that shed collapsed and fell

Years before that there was a withered
dog chained up there

I saved him, maybe he saved me as well

Now
he's gone and I think I've come undone

And it's midnight in the city of
destruction



There's music in the air and sweet abandon

They're singin' cross the farm in the evening breeze

But there's
someone in the rows who's unwanted

And now they've cut the faithful from
the trees

And the bulldozers move in one by one

It's midnight in
the city of destruction



I lost my guitar, my home, my hope and my
good fortune

I lost my grandfather, two neighbors and my friend

I
pray that God himself will come and drown the president

If the levees
break again

Now we're standin' at the crossroads waitin' for
instruction

And it’s midnight in the city of destruction



There's a secret prison somewhere south of 60

And in that secret prison
there's a secret cell

And the prisoner's bound and burned, blinded and
beaten

Still that secret prisoner keeps his secret well

Turn out
the lights 'cause for one night that's enough, son

It's midnight in the
city of destruction