All Through the Night

The lyrics describe someone who feels loved and close to another person during the night, but alone when morning comes. This creates an emotional shift from happiness and excitement to disappointment and a sense of being left behind. The speaker finds comfort in returning to the same dream each night.

“Dawn comes to waken me” marks the end of the speaker’s imagined closeness and the return to reality. The contrast between night and morning suggests that the relationship may exist only in dreams, or that the loved person is unavailable. “The shadows fall” signals night returning, when the speaker can feel close again.

The repeated phrase “I have the right” sounds like a claim to comfort or hope: even if the speaker cannot be with this person in waking life, they feel entitled to dream of them. “Ecstasy” expresses intense joy, though the lyrics do not explain whether this joy comes from a real relationship, a fantasy, or a memory. The song leaves that uncertainty open.