Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song A Night Underground, artist - The Happy Family. Album song The Man On Your Street, in the genre Date of issue: 31.10.1982
Record label: 4AD
Song language: English
A Night Underground |
| I’ve tied my future up with a fine organisation |
| It’s called the Red Brigades and they treat employees well |
| Threw in my living lot with trainees and refugees |
| Trade words, deeds, the quick and the dead |
| More than I can tell |
| Blind days with books as safe as a sprig of deadly nightshade |
| My feet set flat on the floor and Hell nowhere in sight |
| Long walks and dizzy talk with fellow travellers and foreigners |
| Words, deeds, the quick and the dead |
| Help me see the light |
| And on the first day |
| I could distinguish wrong from right |
| And before the second day |
| The first night |
| (A night underground) |
| Oh, the first night |
| (A night underground) |
| Well met — we share scarlet fever and we caught it from a grievance |
| Hall set his girl against him when he seized her in his car |
| The red goal lures many souls |
| Vendetta-crazed girls and men of the world |
| Trade words, deeds, the quick and the dead |
| Together we’ll go far |
| Moon, skin, slipping it in and the pulse of blood relations |
| Slats, shades and the scatterbrains of moths against the light |
| From pillow talk to politics, cry Hegel, cry baby |
| Words, deeds, the quick and the dead |
| And downy feather’s flight |
| And on the first day |
| I could distinguish wrong from right |
| And before the second day |
| The first night |
| (A night underground) |
| Oh, the first night |
| (A night underground) |
| Because the quick will meet the dead |
| The double man finds friends |
| Because its spinning goes to his head |
| He wants a world without end |
| He’ll build a world without end, my love |
| He never wants to die |
| He’s quite prepared to kill, my love |
| To keep his world alive |
| Making the match with a double-bind we can turn into embracing |
| We catch our yearning up in the act of turning round |
| Sing marching songs as we forge the bonds Between Eros and Thanatos |
| Words, deeds, the quick and the dead |
| We’re lost in what we’ve found |
| Vendetta-crazed girls and men of the world |
| And on the first day |
| I could distinguish wrong from right |
| And before the second day |
| The first night |
| (A night underground) |
| Oh, the first night |
| (A night underground) |
| Because the quick will meet the dead |
| The double man makes friends |
| Because its spinning goes to his head |
| He wants a world without end |
| He wants a world without end, my love |
| (When the marksmen march to the top of the town) |
| He never wants to die |
| (Marked men fall down again) |
| He’s quite prepared to kill, my love |
| (When the marksmen march to the top of the town) |
| To keep his world alive |
| (Marked men fall down again) |
| (When the marksmen march to the top of the town |
| Marked men fall down again) |
| (When the marksmen march to the top of the town |
| Marked men fall down again) |
| (When the marksmen march to the top of the town |
| Marked men fall down again) |