Midnight Passenger (Lyrics)

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 the sound the creator made don't let it stop [Chorus:] come again, midnight passenger there to accompany down to the end of the souls lost 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 ship that was sinking 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 [Chorus] we will show up with all our secret problems and if we can't find land there's a tone written into soul songs that understands [Chorus] we will be free