Midnight Passenger Lyrics - Common Rider

I stepped out on a celluloid night 

that flickered on a black and white reel 

Looking for something that I could not explain 

I could only feel 

These were the songs upheld by the shades 

that spoke to me as I left town 

Israelites, The Harder they Come, 54-47* 

I hear them now 

And the words of the prophets never sounded 

as good as the echo of a hard one drop 

To be forever enslaved by a sound the creator 

made- don't let it stop 

Come again, midnight passenger 

There to accompany down 

To the end of the souls tlost avenue 

Feel it now 

I kept walking in the dust all night 

Looking for a diamond in the crush 

Halfway under in bars like a shop that was going 

down-or coming up 

It was not the sun that stung, but the feel of loss 

and the voice of suffering and fate 

Till I just stopped listening to the chatter of all 

those yesterdays- crime pays 

We will show up with all our secret problems 

and even if we can't find land 

There's a tone written into soul songs 

that understands 

we will be free