DON HENLEY - The Garden Of Allah lyrics

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It was pretty big year for fashion<br>A lousy year for rock and roll<br>The people gave their blessing to crimes of passion<br>It was a dark, dark night of the collective soul<br>And I was somewhere out on riverside by the el royale hotel<br>When a stranger appeared in a cloud of smoke<br>I thought I knew him all too well<br>He said now that I have your attention<br>I got something I wanna say<br>You may not wanna hear it, I'm gonna tell it to you anyway<br>You know I've always like you boy<br>Cause you were not afraid of me<br>Things are gonna get mighty rough here in gomorrah-by-the-sea<br><br>Ya said it's just like home<br>It's so damn hot I can't stand it<br>My fine seersucker suit is all soaking wet<br>And the hills are burning<br>And the wind is raging<br>And the clock strikes midnight in the garden of allah<br>In the garden of allah<br><br>Nice car<br>Ah, I love those bavarians<br>So meticulous<br>Y'know I remember when things were a lot more fun around here<br>When good was good and evil was evil<br>Before things got so fuzzy<br>I was once a golden boy like you<br>And I was summoned to the halls of power in the heavenly courts<br>And I dined with the deities who looked upon me with favor,<br>For my talents, my creativity<br>And we sat beneath the palms<br>In the warm afternoons and drank the wine<br>With fitzgerald and huxley<br>And they pawned the biting phrase from the tongues hot with blood<br>And drained their pins of bitter ink<br>Vainly reaching for the bottle full of empty edens<br>Branded especially for the ones who had come with great expectations<br>To the perfumed halls of allah, for their time in the sun<br><br>And we were stokin' the fires and oilin' up the machinery<br>Until the gods found out we had ideas of our own<br>And war was coming and the earth was shaking<br>And there was no more ruin in the garden of allah<br><br>Today I made an appearance downtown<br>I am an expert witness because I say I am<br>And I said gentlemen, and I use that world loosely<br>I will testify for you, I'm a gun for hire,I'm a saint, I'm a liar<br>Because there are no facts, there is no truth<br>Just data to be manipulated<br>I can get you any result you like<br>What's it worth to you? <br>Because there is no wrong, there is no right<br>And I sleep very well at night<br>No shame, no solution, no remorse, no retribution<br>Just people selling t-shirts<br>Just opportunity to participate in the pathetic little circus<br>And winning, winning, winning<br><br>It was pretty big year for predators<br>The marketplace was on a roll<br>And the land of opportunity<br>Spawned a whole new breed of men without souls<br>This year notoriety got all confused with fame<br>And the devil is downhearted babe, cause<br>There's nothing left for him to claim<br><br>He said it's just like home<br>It's so low-down I can't stand it<br>I guess my work around here has all been done<br><br>And the fruit is rotten, the serpent's eyes shine<br>As he wraps around the vine,<br>In the garden of allah<br>In the garden of allah<br>In the garden of allah