Nightwatchman - Maximum Firepower lyrics

rate me

This one's for the shoeshine boy and the farmer in debt

Each string is barbed wire, each chord is a threat

This blues guy I met that never had a hit

Said, ?You don't gotta be loud, son, to be heavy as shit?

Well, I'm the triggerman, baby, tonight I'll prove

That this machine here, well, it kills fascists too

And don't be surprised if the 'Sermon on the Mount'

The next time is delivered in a little coffee house

'Cause somebody here's gotta let them know

I doubt it's me but here I go

I hit the button, tape started to roll

Yeah, the song's got fire, it's got no soul

There's a lonely stretch of blacktop between here and home

Drop down into the valley, piano playin' in the living room

When you see the white barn you'll know the journey's through

My dog's barking in the backseat 'cause he knows it too

You'll need a fake passport and fix your disguise

And don't fire, sugar, 'til you see the whites of their eyes

I turned the other cheek but now I'm through

The skin you're in makes choices for you

I was checking off names and I came late to dinner

Seems the slices of pie keep getting thinner and thinner

Brothers and sisters, rejoice and repent

The landlord's dead, you can keep the rent

You got twelve fine friends but one of 'em's rotten

There's a hole out back, ain't got no bottom

Forty days in the wilderness, forty sleepless nights

I'm confused, half blind and sure I'm right

There's a lonely stretch of blacktop between here and home

Drop down into the valley, piano playin' in the living room

When you see the white barn you'll know the journey's through

My dog's barking in the backseat 'cause he knows it too

Officer, please, I won't be long

Called the radio station, requested this song

Now I had my doubts about what I knew

So I turned it up and then it sounded true

Kiss the ring if the Queen will let you

But come over the fence and the dogs will get you

On a rope hung the traitor, on a hook hung the meat

You and me are missing persons 'til we're counted in the streets

So seize the time and storm the tower

And come correct with maximum firepower

For the sins of the father, the son, he must pay

The Nightwatchman giveth and he taketh away

Thought hard about this next line, pretty sure it's true

If you take a step towards freedom it'll take two steps towards you

So, mister, I ain't scared and, mister, I ain't worried

'Cause on that lonely stretch of blacktop I sit as judge and jury

There's a lonely stretch of blacktop between here and home

Drop down into the valley, piano playin' in the living room

When you see the white barn you know the journey's through

My dog's barking in the backseat 'cause he knows it too

The clock strikes the hour, tonight we ride

The clock strikes the hour, tonight we ride

The clock strikes the hour, tonight we ride

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