Lyrics for At Night as interpreted by oofus

At Night Lyrics
Sunk deep in the night
I sink in the night
Standing alone underneath the sky
I feel the chill of ice
On my face
I watch the hours go by

The hours go by...

You sleep
Sleep in a safe bed
Curled and protected
Protected from sight
Under a safe roof
Deep in your house
Unaware of the changes at night

At night
I hear the darkness breathe
I sense the quiet despair
Listen to the silence
At night
Someone has to be there
Someone has to be there

Someone must be there

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jancsibohoc
03-03-2005

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This song is the best i think on the Paris album.
The album version is barely audible anyway.
The paris version howvere is loud and clear and funky.

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Chris_Valentine
12-31-2005

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One of the 5 best cure songs in my book. The version on paris is good - but nothing can beat the original for all of its minimilistic and simple sounds. great bass, guitar and keyboards in this one. Simon Gallup is a bassist!

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Cynothoglys
08-17-2006

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It's about a man (the narrator) who is possibly insane who breaks into people's houses and... It's never really explained, is it?

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suicidemoon
09-19-2006

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i read somewhere it was written after robert read Franz Kafka's short story "at night"....which does fit

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SafeAsHouses
12-23-2006

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Robert is known for writing songs after books(or being inspired by them). i.e. Killing An Arab, Charlotte Sometimes, A Letter To Elise . . .

Amazing eerie song

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rabbithowl
06-27-2007

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This song actually is about the Kafka story, Robert admitted in a magazine article back around 1984. The Top had just come out, but the interviewer didn't give a shit about that and just kept asking about Seventeen Seconds.

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monster36604
11-25-2008

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suicidemoon and rabbithowl are right. Here is the story:

"Deeply lost in the night. Just as one sometimes lowers one's head to reflect, thus to be utterly lost in the night. All around people are asleep. It's just play acting, an innocent self-deception, that they sleep in houses, in safe beds, under a safe roof, stretched out or curled up on mattresses, in sheets, under blankets; in reality they have flocked together as they had once upon a time and again later in a deserted region, a camp in the open, a countless number of men, an army, a people, under a cold sky on cold earth, collapsed where once they had stood, forehead pressed on the arm, face to the ground, breathing quietly. And you are watching, are one of the watchmen, you find the next one by brandishing a burning stick from the brushwood pile beside you. Why are you watching? Someone must watch, it is said. Someone must be there."

excellent song.

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