Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Beat Of The Night, artist - Bob Geldof. Date of issue: 31.12.1993
Song language: English
The Beat Of The Night |
| It was cold that night from across the west and the days had lost their spark |
| And the yellow lights split the rain so bright and the dogs had lost their bark |
| What Hitchcock plots were hatched that night behind the shuttered door |
| When the curtain shook and the head beat down and he quietly was withdrawn |
| And we moved in the Beat |
| Beat of the Night, Beat of the Night |
| Beat of the Night |
| So I made my way to the top of the hill and I looked on down the road |
| And the air stood still in the frost and chill as the hours and the minutes |
| unfold |
| But the trees they shook and the house creeked as though seized by a violent |
| rage |
| And the wind bites deep and the wires shriek like a noise from beyond the grave |
| And they moved in the Beat |
| Swayed in the Beat |
| Talk in the Beat |
| The Beat of the Night |
| The sound of women crying made me go and investigate |
| And I walked past a row of houses 'til I reached #48 |
| Where the huddled neighbors stood about, frightened shocked and scared |
| And the bleating of an ambulance cut through the thickening air |
| And with a sickening sense of deja vu I knew what was coming next |
| I’d been here before, but when or how, I couldn’t quiet connect |
| And from an open-windowed upstairs flat someone sang along |
| Yes I knew the words and I knew the tune |
| They were playing that beautiful song that went Yeah, yeah, yeah (Yeah yeah |
| yeah)(Yeah yeah yeah) (Yeah yeah yeah) (Yeah yeah yeah) |
| And we moved in the Beat (Yeah yeah yeah) |
| Rocked in the Beat (Yeah yeah yeah) |
| Talkin' in the Beat (Yeah yeah yeah) |
| The Beat of the Night (Yeah yeah yeah) |
| The Beat of the Night (Yeah yeah yeah) |
| The Beat of the Night (Yeah yeah yeah) |
| A black man slumped up against the door |
| And a Brown man lay face down on the floor |
| And a white woman sobbed on the second stair |
| And all the blood was red |
| And then they moved in the Beat |
| Rockin' in the Beat |
| Talkin' in the Beat |
| The Beat of the Night |
| Yes the tears of rage and the tears of anger flowed to the river bank |
| And at the local disco dancehall they were cranking up the skank |
| And the pulse of the noise went through the night into the washed-up back of my |
| feet |
| And I smelled the fear and I tasted blood and the soundtrack was the Beat |
| As we moved in the Beat (Yeah yeah yeah) |
| Rockin' in the Beat (Yeah yeah yeah) |
| Murder in the Beat (Yeah yeah yeah) |
| The Beat of the Night (Yeah yeah yeah) |