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Beat of Night
The Boomtown Rats
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It was cold that night when the crows flew west
And the days had lost their spark
And the yellow light split the rain-soaked night
And the dogs had lost their bark
What Hitchcock plots were hatched that night
Behind the shuttered doors
When a curtain shook and a head peeped out
And quietly was withdrawn
And we moved in the beat
The beat of the night
The beat of the night
The 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 houses creaked
As though seized by a violent rage
And the wind bites deep and the wires shriek
Like a noise from beyond the grave
As they moved in the beat
Swayed in the beat
Talked 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 till I reached number 48
Where the huddled neighbours stood about
Frightened, shocked and scared
Then the bleating of an ambulance
Cut through the thickening air
And with a sickening sense of déjà vu
I knew what was coming next
I'd been here before but when or how
I couldn't quite connect
Then from an open windowed upstairs flat
Someone sang along
Yes I knew the words and I knew the tune
They were playing a Beatles song
That went yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
And we moved in the beat
Rocked in the beat
Talkin' in the beat
The beat of the night
The beat of the night
The beat of the night
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
The beat of the night
In the beat of the night
The beat of the night
Yeah
Yes the tears of rage and the tears of anger
Flowed to the riverbank
And at the local disco dance hall
They were cranking up the skank
And the pulse of that noise cut through the night
Until it washed up at my feet
And I smelt the fear and I tasted blood
And the soundtrack was the beat
As we moved in the beat
Talkin' in the beat
Murder in the beat
The beat of the night
The beat of the night
The beat of the night
The beat of the night