The Fabled City

[Verse 1]
Me and Javi
Shouted slogans in Spanish
Like it was our world to win
Then they moved the plant
Down to Ojeda
Time to bite your tongue again

[Chorus]
I've seen the fabled city
And its streets are paved with gold
But an iron fence runs 'round it
And its iron gate is closed

[Verse 2]
What ain't right ain't right
He told me
But something else passed behind his eyes
Now he's downtown on his knees
Washing floors for somebody
And quietly biding his time

[Chorus]
I've seen the fabled city
And its streets are paved with gold
But an iron fence runs round it
And its iron gate is closed

[Bridge]
At the gas station
On Sunset and Crescent
I met an angel sad and old
She lived in the alley
Behind the market
In the shadows maybe hidden from the Lord
And for a dollar
She sang a song
That sounded more like a prayer
A wish that her dead mother and father
Couldn't look down and see her there

[Chorus]
I've seen the fabled city
And its streets are paved with gold
But an iron fence runs round it
And its iron gate is closed

[Outro]
On the wire outside my window
There sit 100 swallows
And I suspect that if one flew
Then 99 would follow