The Beat Of The Night - Bob Geldof

作词：Bob Geldof

作曲：Bob Geldof

It was cold that night from across

The west and the days had lost their spark

And the yellow lights split the rain so bright

And the dogs had lost their bark

What Hitchcock plots were hatched

That night behind the shuttered door

When the curtain shook

And the head beat down

And he quietly was withdrawn

And we moved in the Beat

Beat of the Night Beat of the Night

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 house creeked

As though seized by a violent rage

And the wind bites deep

And the wires shriek like

A noise from beyond the grave

And they moved in the Beat

Swayed in the Beat

Talk 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 'til I reached the number 48

Where the huddled neighbors stood about

Frightened shocked and scared

And the bleating of an ambulance

Cut through the thickening air

And with a sickening sense of deja

Vu I knew what was coming next

I'd been here before

But when or how

I couldn't quiet connect

And from an open-windowed

Upstairs flat someone sang along

Yes I knew the words and I knew the tune

They 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

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

The Beat of the Night

The Beat of the Night

Yes the tears of rage and the tears of

Anger flowed to the river bank

And at the local disco dancehall

They were cranking up the skank

And the pulse of the noise went through

The night into the washed-up back of my feet

And I smelled the fear

And I tasted blood

And the soundtrack was the Beat

As 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)