The Nightwatchman - The Fabled City lyrics

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 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 What ain't right ain't right He told me But something else pa**ed behind his eyes Now he's downtown on his knees Washing floors for somebody And quietly biding his time 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 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 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 On the wire outside my window There sit 100 swallows And I suspect that if one flew Then 99 would follow