The Perilous Night by Drive-By Truckers Lyrics

[Verse 1]
We needed warming from the cold hard facts
Unheeded warnings 'bout the broken tracks
All hope is fading, it's not coming back again

[Verse 2]
Uniting forces may be calling fast
Changing courses to some Stalin past
Melting faces through the looking glass, my friend

[Chorus]
Something's got a hold of our feel alright
Out of control in the appetite
We're moving into the perilous night, amen
Amen

[Verse 3]
Dumb, white and angry with their cup half filled
Running over people down in Charlottesville
White House Fury, it's the killing side he defends
[Verse 4]
Defend the up-ender, yes he played that tune
It ain't the ending but it's coming soon
We're making love beneath a sputnik moon again

[Verse 5]
White House is glowing from the Red Square light
The gates at the border bein' slammed down tight
We're movin' into the perilous night, my friend

[Chorus]
Something's got a hold of our feel alright
Out of control in the appetite
We're moving into the perilous night, amen
Amen

[Bridge]
And why's that drone looking through my window?
World keeps turning in the torch light shadow
Fourth Reich in khakis is beckoning
Both ends burning to the reckoning

[Verse 6]
Ronnie Reagan must be spinnin' his grave
Putin's on the rise, Ukraine's under siege
Fascism's knocking and Trump says "Let them in"
[Verse 7]
I'd like to tell you there'll be better days
But optimism's runnin' low today
We're off the deep end with a lifeguard that can't swim

[Verse 8]
The Klan and the Nazis are taking up the fight
Against their own salvation in the savior's light
We're moving into the perilous night, amen

[Verse 9]
Flags of oppression are blocking out the light
Dismantling The Greatest Generation's fight
We're moving into the perilous night, amen
Amen
Amen