The Nightwatchman - The Fabled City

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I just got this album, and it's fantastic just like all Tom Morello's stuff. If you don't know of him, The Nightwatchman is Tom Morello, the guitarist from Rage Against the Machine. One of my favorite guitarist and his Nightwatchman stuff is pretty powerfull lyrically as well, more of a folk style music then what he usually does. Here is the lyrics for the song Lazarus on Down that Serj Tankian helps out with the vocals on as well.

I've been tearing
And I've been torn
The temple steps
Are smooth and warm

What Juda's been doing
There ain't no knowing
On the olive vines
Something different is growing

Lazarus on down
Lazarus on down
C'mon, let's push on through
No, let's go around
Lazarus on down

One eyed crow
Tapping on a windowpane
Little boy raised a cup
In cyaphast's name

In the potter's field
Blood beneath the tree
That money's gone son
What's left, you owe me

Lazarus on down
Lazarus on down
C'mon, let's push on through
No, man, let's turn around
Lazarus on down

Sound of thunder
Smell of a burnin' oil
What's that movin' beneath the soil
The street lights out
Dark shape on the ground
Lazarus on down
Lazarus on down
Lazarus on down

Is that hope
In the shepherd's eyes?
Or just another
Little dark surprise?

I'm just like you, dad
Thin and cold
If you didn't know it
Well, now you know

Great stuff, also check out his new band Street Sweeper Social Club if you are a fan of his guitar playing.