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Nighttime For Generals

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 Nighttime For Generals

 

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.

 

La noche de los generales 

 

Es de noche y las limusinas

van llegando a la entrada.

El general celebra otra fiesta

con uno o tres congresistas y algunos

tipos que nunca habréis visto al entrar al banco.

 

Hay un risueño tintineo de copas

y un pulido taconeo de botas

y una amargada conversación de una nación

con una debilidad en sus raíces. 

 

Y es la noche de los generales

y de los chicos de la C.I.A.

El poder se volvió loco en la oscuridad

pensando que un buen día sería Dios.

Ellos dan, ellos quitan

pero sobre todo les encanta apropiarse.

 

Sí, los tontos no aprecian la diferencia,

"es por su propio bien", dicen.

Y dispararon a la ciega Libertad

en la nuca.

 

Y es la noche de los generales

y de los chicos de la C.I.A.

El poder se volvió loco en la oscuridad

pensando que un buen día sería Dios.

Ellos dan, ellos quitan

pero sobre todo les encanta apropiarse.

 

Ellos dan, ellos quitan.

 

Es la noche, es la noche, es la noche.

 

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  • Escrita por: David Crosby y Craig Doerge

     

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