Children Of The Night Lyrics - Slow Flux - Steppenwolf

Some of us are Rock n' Roll stars 

Chasing the flash and travel 

Most of us wear the right length of hair 

But that's all that is left of the dream 

Oh, the dream it was born in the summer of love 

And it died with the Woodstock Nation 

But what has it left for the carpenter's son 

And the new coming generation? 

Oh, we all believed we knew the way 

But fate did not agree 

Now we've tired of asking who we are 

And what we ought to be 

Children of the night howling at the gate 

Here to claim forgotten dreams 

Too late, too late orphans of the darkness waiting to belong 

Been listening to the same old story too long to care, too long 

Barely thirteen hard and they're mean 

Hunting in packs like jackals 

They prey on the meek, the old and the weak 

Like a scourge on the face of the earth 

All around our town they're fighting with guns 

And building their homemade bazookas 

And ten year old Jimmy got arrested in school 

They found a tank in his locker 

Oh, we all believed we held the key 

To peaceful harmony 

But the times have changed the way we feel 

And we fear our destiny 

Sure must be fun to watch a president run 

Just ask the man who owns one 

Why, up on the hill, they're killing the bill 

That would pay for his capitol crime 

But Cardinal Sin, he blessed him and said 

"I know that you're rotten down to the core 

But nobody else can do it so well 

That's why I'm behind you for three years more" 

Oh, they all believed they'd found the one 

Who'd lead them to the light 

But the tides will turn against the fool 

Who'd believe that wrong it right