Black Birds Before Dawn

Verse 1

Daddy flew the black birds out before the dawn

Unmarked wings cutting through the morning calm

Called them Spooks he said

No Such Agency instead

And I was just a boy with my ear against the wall

Pre-Chorus

All the secrets in the basement

All the names they never say

All the ghosts in the hallways

Chorus

The men in the shadows

They know my name too well

They watch every window

I keep whispering stories

Nobody wants to tell

The men in the shadows

Verse 2

Bobby's boy he called himself

Covert through the years

Tablets of commandments carved

In places with no mirrors

And somewhere in the paperwork

A number two kept score

Saturn's rings and silver strings

Behind a closed steel door

Pre-Chorus

All the symbols on the ledger

All the oaths they swore in blood

All the names that stay unspoken

Chorus

The men in the shadows

They know my name too well

They watch every window

I keep whispering stories

Nobody wants to tell

The men in the shadows

Bridge

And the Bear just growls and waits

From the frozen eastern gates

While the archives burn and fade

Every truth we ever made

Chorus

The men in the shadows

They know my name too well

They watch every window

I keep whispering stories

Nobody wants to tell

The men in the shadows

They know my name too well

Outro

The men

The men

The men in the shadows