The beat of the night (Bob Geldof)It was cold that night from across the west and the days had lost their sparkAnd the yellow lights split the rain so bright and the dogs had lost their barkWhat Hitchcock plots were hatched that night behind the shuttered doorWhen the curtain shook and the head beat down and he quietly was withdrawnAnd we moved in the BeatBeat of the Night, Beat of the NightBeat of the NightSo I made my way to the top of the hill and I looked on down the roadAnd the air stood still in the frost and chill as the hours and the minutes unfoldBut the trees they shook and the house creeked as though seized by a violent rageAnd the wind bites deep and the wires shriek like a noise from beyond the graveAnd they moved in the BeatSwayed in the BeatTalk in the BeatThe Beat of the NightThe sound of women crying made me go and investigateAnd I walked past a row of houses 'til I reached #48Where the huddled neighbors stood about, frightened shocked and scaredAnd the bleating of an ambulance cut through the thickening airAnd with a sickening sense of deja vu I knew what was coming nextI'd been here before, but when or how, I couldn't quiet connectAnd from an open-windowed upstairs flat someone sang alongYes I knew the words and I knew the tuneThey 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 doorAnd a Brown man lay face down on the floorAnd a white woman sobbed on the second stairAnd all the blood was redAnd then they moved in the BeatRockin' in the BeatTalkin' in the BeatThe Beat of the Night [x4]Yes the tears of rage and the tears of anger flowed to the river bankAnd at the local disco dancehall they were cranking up the skankAnd the pulse of the noise went through the night into the washed-up back of my feetAnd I smelled the fear and I tasted blood and the soundtrack was the BeatAs 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)
Estate 2019 (7 di 13)
The beat of the night (Bob Geldof)It was cold that night from across the west and the days had lost their sparkAnd the yellow lights split the rain so bright and the dogs had lost their barkWhat Hitchcock plots were hatched that night behind the shuttered doorWhen the curtain shook and the head beat down and he quietly was withdrawnAnd we moved in the BeatBeat of the Night, Beat of the NightBeat of the NightSo I made my way to the top of the hill and I looked on down the roadAnd the air stood still in the frost and chill as the hours and the minutes unfoldBut the trees they shook and the house creeked as though seized by a violent rageAnd the wind bites deep and the wires shriek like a noise from beyond the graveAnd they moved in the BeatSwayed in the BeatTalk in the BeatThe Beat of the NightThe sound of women crying made me go and investigateAnd I walked past a row of houses 'til I reached #48Where the huddled neighbors stood about, frightened shocked and scaredAnd the bleating of an ambulance cut through the thickening airAnd with a sickening sense of deja vu I knew what was coming nextI'd been here before, but when or how, I couldn't quiet connectAnd from an open-windowed upstairs flat someone sang alongYes I knew the words and I knew the tuneThey 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 doorAnd a Brown man lay face down on the floorAnd a white woman sobbed on the second stairAnd all the blood was redAnd then they moved in the BeatRockin' in the BeatTalkin' in the BeatThe Beat of the Night [x4]Yes the tears of rage and the tears of anger flowed to the river bankAnd at the local disco dancehall they were cranking up the skankAnd the pulse of the noise went through the night into the washed-up back of my feetAnd I smelled the fear and I tasted blood and the soundtrack was the BeatAs 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)