Nighttime for the Generals Lyrics

Well, it's nighttime and the long cars

Are arriving at the door

The general is having another party

With a congressman or three

And some guys you never see outside the bank



There's a laughing clink of glasses

And a polished click of boots

Bitter talk of a country

With a weakness in its roots



And it's nighttime for the generals

The boys at the C.I.A

Power gone mad in the darkness

Thinking they're God on a good day

They giveth, they taketh

They like to take it away



"Well the fools don't know the difference
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It's for their own good", they said

And they shot blind Lady Liberty

In the back of her head



And it's nighttime for the generals

The boys at the C.I.A

Power gone mad in the darkness

Thinking they're God on a good day

They giveth, they taketh

They like to take it away



They giveth, they taketh

They like, they take it away

Nighttime, nighttime, nighttime

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Nighttime, nighttime, nighttime

Nighttime, nighttime, nighttime

Nighttime