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 you 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

washin' floors for somebody

And he's quietly biting his toungue

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

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

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 the wire outside my window

there sit one hundred swallows

And I suspect that if one flew

then ninety nine would follow