Night Time For The Generals Lyrics - Crosby Stills Nash

(4:20) 

Written by David Crosby & Craig Doerge, Published by Stay Straight Music, 

Fair Star Music (c) 1987. Recorded March 24th, 1988. 

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. 

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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. 

Lead Vocal: David Crosby 

Drums: Joe Vitale 

Bass: Bob Glaub 

Electric Guitars: Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Graham Nash 

B 3 Organ: Mike Finnigan 

Stephen Stills' guitar solo inspired by James Marshall Hendrix