Midnight In The City Of Destruction

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