Midnight Bats on Bourbon Street

Down on the haunted street where the neon leaks

Liquor signs buzz like they know my name

Boots on the pavement and I got teeth

And every old lie still burns the same

I can feel the wind through the broken glass

Hear the dead men laugh in the alleyway

Every red light says don't look back

But I keep on walking anyway

Oh, this neon ghost street

It won't let me go

Where the saints and sinners move real slow

Bad decisions shining

In the midnight rain

I keep coming back

To the fire and pain

Oh, neon ghost street

Where you smoke in your scars

You can hide my sins

But you can't hide my heart

War room preacher with a halo of doubt

Told me the truth ain't clean, it's a long hard fall

The organ moans and the sax shouts out

Like a warning siren through the crooked walls

And I swore I was done with the dark side of town

But the dark side knew me first

Every broken promise that I ever found

Still tastes like thunder and thirst

Oh, this neon ghost tree, it won't let me go

Where the saints and sinners move real slow

Well, I just could shine in, in the midnight rain

I keep coming back to the fire and pain

Hold me on those streets

With your smoke and your scars

You can hide my sins

But you can't hide my heart

If the shadows call

I know my name

If the dead are listening

I feel no shame

I was born in the blue black age of a lost decade

With a restless soul and a debt I made

Oh, this neon cold sea

He won't let me go

There were saints and sinners

Move real slow

Bad decisions shinin'

In the midnight rain

I keep comin' back

To the fire and pain

Oh, neon road street

Until the morning star

I walk that line

Between the ghosts and stars