Nighttime For The Generals lyrics

Written by David Crosby & Craig Doerge

Well it`s nighttime and the long cars
Are arriving at the door,
The general is having another party,
With a congressman or three
And some guys you never see outside the bank.

There`s a laughing clink of glasses
And a polished click of boots
And bitter talk of a country
With a weakness in its roots.

And it`s nighttime for the generals
And the boys at the C.I.A.
Power gone mad in the darkness
Thinking they`re God on a good day
They giveth, they taketh
But they like to take it away.

`Well the fools don`t know the difference
It`s for their own good,` they said.
And they shot blind Lady Liberty
In the back of her head.

And it`s nighttime for the generals
And the boys at the C.I.A.
Power gone mad in the darkness
Thinking they`re God on a good day
They giveth, they taketh
But they like to take it away.

They giveth, they taketh,

Nighttime, nighttime, nighttime