History's so strong, history's so strong History's so strong, history's so strong History's so strong, history's so strong Stick another drinking song to honky-tonk, we'll do Make another breaking bomb, your favorite ingenue This the distant dawn, this the distant dawn I put my cards upon the table, I do this because I am able One picks his broken-down devotion, I threw my pistol in the ocean Eyes wide with revelation, shine at the police station And when the verdict comes round, I'm sure that you will go down Stay all night, save the population Stay all night, we'll save the population Stay all night, we'll save the population Stay all night, we'll save the population Pistol and its pawn, sailing to the lexicon A pistol and its pawn, blood and borderlines be drawn Take another bottle down the brothel and the shrew Make another awful sound to ride the gothic crew History's so strong, history's so strong I put my cards upon the table, I do this because I am able One picks his broken-down devotion, I threw my pistol in the ocean Eyes wide with revelation, shine at the police station And when the verdict comes round, I'm sure that you will go down Stay all night, we'll save the population Stay all night, we'll save the population Stay all night, we'll save the population Stay all night, we'll save the population