Biography:
The Nightwatchman is the solo project of American musician Tom Morello (guitarist for Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, and Street Sweeper Social Club). Morello began performing as The Nightwatchman in 2003 (with some album covers showing Tom Morello The Nightwatchman or Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman).
Morello has explained, "The Nightwatchman is my political folk alter ego. I've been writing these songs and playing them at open mic nights with friends for some time.
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Other songs:
- Battle Hymns
- Garden Of Gethsemane
- House Gone Up In Flames
- Maximum Firepower
- Midnight In The City Of Destruction
- One Man Revolution
- Solidarity Forever
- Union Song
- Alone Without You
- Black Spartacus Heart Attack Machine
- Branding Iron
- Californias Dark
- Dark Clouds Above
- God Help Us All
- Gone Like Rain
- King Of Hell
- Lazarus On Down
- Let Freedom Ring
- Night Falls
- No One Left
- Rise To Power
- Saint Isabelle
- Save The Hammer For The Man
- Shake My Shit
- The Fabled City
- The Iron Wheel
- The King Of Hell
- The Lights Are On In Spidertown
- Union Town
- Whatever It Takes
- World Wide Rebel Songs
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Intro: G#m
G#m
There's an old shed at the end of an overgrown driveway
And years ago that shed collapsed and fell
C#m
Years before that there's a withered dog chained up there
G#m
I saved him maybe he saved me as well
D# C#
Now he's gone and I think I've come undone
G#m C#m G#m
It's midnight in the city of destruction
Chorus:
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La la la la la la la la
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La la la la la la la la
G#m C#m G#m
La la la la la la la la
G#m
There's music in the air and suites abandoned
They're singing 'cross farm in the evening breeze
C#m
But there's someone in the rows who's unwanted
G#m
And now they cut the faithful from the trees
D# C#
And the bulldozers move in one by one
G#m C#m G#m
And it's midnight in the city of destruction
Chorus
G#m
I lost my guitar my home my hope and my good fortune
I lost my grandfather two neighbors and my friend
C#m
I pray that God myself will come and drown the president
C#m
If the levees break again
D# C#
Now we're standing at the crossroads waitin' for instruction
G#m C#m G#m
And it's midnight in the city of destruction
Chorus
G#m
There's a secret prison somewhere south of
And in that secret prison there is a secret cell
C#m
And the prisoners bound and burned blinded and beaten
G#m
Still that secret prisoner keeps his secret well
D# C#
Turn out the lights cause for one night that's enough son
G#m C#m G#m
It's midnight in the city of destruction
Chorus
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