Somebody Told the Truth

The courthouse emptied out
 The jurors all went home
 The lawyers eased their guilty hearts
 The cops were on their own
 The soldiers left their camps
 The weapons lay in heaps
 The generals disappeared
 The prisoners were freed
 Somebody, somebody told
 They told the truth to somebody
 Somebody told the truth
 Somebody, somebody told
 They told the truth to somebody
 Somebody told the truth
 The theaters emptied out
 The radios went dead
 The stadiums were silent
 And not a word was said
 The dots were all connected
 The lines were barely drawn
 The secrets night kept hidden
 Were left out in the dawn
 Somebody, somebody told
 They told the truth to somebody
 Somebody told the truth
 Somebody, somebody told
 They told the truth to somebody
 Somebody told the truth
 The starving men and women
 For once received their fill
 The children of the highway
 Were singin' on the hill
 The politicians vanished
 They must have caught their plane
 The clandestine policeman
 Stared out in the rain
 I sat down on the curbstone
 I rubbed my eyes and coughed
 I rubbed my wrists and ankles
 And I thanked the lord above
 Somebody, somebody told
 They told the truth to somebody
 Somebody told the truth
 Somebody, somebody told
 They told the truth to somebody
 Somebody told the truth