Axis of Justice Until the End (The Nightwatchman) Lyrics

No one knows who gave the orders
No one asks about the crime
No one looks behind the curtain
No one questions why
The only time we've got
Is right about now
I cross my heart
I take the vow

I'll never turn
I'll never bend
I'm with you now
Until the end

Tonight's the test
Tonight's the time
I am the punishment
That fits the crime
I'll break the bricks
I'll pick the locks
I don't got nothin'
But I'll give what I got

I'll never turn
I'll never bend
I'm with you now
Until the end

Ten trials whose outcomes
All fixed from the start
Nine judges sitting counting
Their money in the dark
Eight towers of iron
Surround the desert town
On a cold December morning
Seven martyrs knocked them down
Six fathers still waiting
For their six sons to come home
Five mothers who know better
And accept that they're gone
Four years I've been hunted
Still I breathe free
Three times I shot the sheriff
And did not spare the deputy

Two prayers I'm praying
Until we're together
One promise I'm keeping
Tonight and forever

I'll never turn
I'll never bend
I'm with you now
Until the end

There's and old grayed shed at the end of an overgrow driveway
And years ago that shed collapsed and fell
Years before that there's 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

There's music in the air and sweet abandon
There's signing cross the farm in the evening breeze
But there someone in the row who's unwanted
And now they've cut the faithful from the trees
The bulldozers move in one by one
And 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
And were standing at the crossroads waiting 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 prisoners bound and burned blinded and beaten
But still that secret prisoner keeps his secret well
Turn out the lights cause for one night, that's enough son!