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Songs To Orphans 4
something in the night
Well Im riding down Kingsley, figuring Ill get a drink
I turn the radio way up loud, so I dont have to think
Then I take her to the floor
Looking for a moment when the world seems right
And I tear into the guts of something in the night
I picked this chick up hitch-hiking
She hung her head out the window and she screamed
She said she was looking for someplace to go
To die or be redeemed
She said, well you can ride this road till dawn
Without another human being in sight
Everybodys gone lookin for something in the night
She said she was born with nothing
Said she was better off that way
Soon as you got something
They send somebody to come along and try and take it away
She wants me to push this old car
Says together, me and her, we can make it clean
Make it fast make it out of sight
We can surrneder to the justice of something in the night
And I know that nothing is forgotten or forgiven
You only got one time around
And theres stuff running round my he
I cant live with or live down
And inside all the Big Boys and the Players
Sit around the table and mumble about some big wrong or right
While kids like us rumble - over something in the night
And then we found the things we loved
They were crushed and dying in the dirt
Me and her we tried to pick up, pick up some of the pieces
And get away without getting hurt - shouldve known
Because they caught us at the State line
Burned our cars in one last fight
And then they sent us running blind into the swamps
Chasing something in the night
Alternative final verses
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And now all them people out on the Island
They better lock up their doors and take their children by the hand
Because tonight the Devil will walk these streets like a king
Better bring along some switchblades in case that old fool wants to fight
You can tell him Ill be waiting in my room with all the light out
Crazy with that something in the night
Tonight me and that little girl were gonna love each other
Till we got nothing left to show
Were gonna push my old car as hard and as fast as she will go
For all the ones caught laughing in the face of the Devil
Who went when the moment was right
Somewhere well surrender to the beauty
Of something in the night
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