(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
And it's nighttime for the generals
And the boys at the CIA
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 CIA
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 Glau
Electric Guitars: Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Graham Nash
B 3 Organ: Mike Finnigan
Stephen Stills' guitar solo inspired by James Marshall Hendrix