Drive-By Truckers - The Perilous Night lyrics
[Drive-By Truckers - The Perilous Night lyrics]
We needed warming from the cold hard facts
Unheeded warnings 'bout the broken tracks
All hope is fading
It's not coming back again
Uniting forces may be calling fast
Changing courses to some Stalin past
Melting faces through the looking glass
My friend
Something's got a hold of our feel alright
Out of control in the appetite
We're moving into the perilous night, amen
Amen
Dumb, white and angry with
Their cup half filled
Running over people down in Charlottesville
White House Fury
It's the killing side he defends
Defend the up-ender, yes he played that tune
It ain't the ending but it's coming soon
We're making love beneath a
Sputnik moon again
White House is glowing from
The Red Square light the gates at the border
Bein' slammed down tight
We're movin' into the perilous night
My friend
Something's got a hold of our feel alright
Out of control in the appetite
We're moving into the perilous night, amen
Amen
And why's that drone looking
Through my window?
World keeps turning in the torch light shadow
Fourth Reich in khakis is beckoning
Both ends burning to the reckoning
Ronnie Reagan must be spinnin' his grave
Putin's on the rise, Ukraine's under siege
Fascism's knocking and Trump says
"Let them in"
I'd like to tell you there'll be better days
But optimism's runnin' low today
We're off the deep end with
A lifeguard that can't swim
The Klan and the Nazis are
Taking up the fight
Against their own salvation in
The savior's light
We're moving into the perilous night, amen
Flags of oppression are blocking
Out the light
Dismantling The Greatest Generation's fight
We're moving into the perilous night, amen
Amen amen
Unheeded warnings 'bout the broken tracks
All hope is fading
It's not coming back again
Uniting forces may be calling fast
Changing courses to some Stalin past
Melting faces through the looking glass
My friend
Something's got a hold of our feel alright
Out of control in the appetite
We're moving into the perilous night, amen
Amen
Dumb, white and angry with
Their cup half filled
Running over people down in Charlottesville
White House Fury
It's the killing side he defends
Defend the up-ender, yes he played that tune
It ain't the ending but it's coming soon
We're making love beneath a
Sputnik moon again
White House is glowing from
The Red Square light the gates at the border
Bein' slammed down tight
We're movin' into the perilous night
My friend
Something's got a hold of our feel alright
Out of control in the appetite
We're moving into the perilous night, amen
Amen
And why's that drone looking
Through my window?
World keeps turning in the torch light shadow
Fourth Reich in khakis is beckoning
Both ends burning to the reckoning
Ronnie Reagan must be spinnin' his grave
Putin's on the rise, Ukraine's under siege
Fascism's knocking and Trump says
"Let them in"
I'd like to tell you there'll be better days
But optimism's runnin' low today
We're off the deep end with
A lifeguard that can't swim
The Klan and the Nazis are
Taking up the fight
Against their own salvation in
The savior's light
We're moving into the perilous night, amen
Flags of oppression are blocking
Out the light
Dismantling The Greatest Generation's fight
We're moving into the perilous night, amen
Amen amen