Granite Street Knife Fight Lyrics

Lyric discussion by NtoTheDrk 

Cover art for Granite Street Knife Fight lyrics by Junction 18

This song is awesome. I don't think I've heard a better one In my life. It obviously means that there is corruption in the world but you have to learn to live with it. I get every line except - How can you let these nights remain unsurrendered? I was told that shakespeare used the word 'unsurrendered' to describe nights with the topic of making love, but how does it fit in? Someone help me get it.