SOMETHING IN THE NIGHT^©

Live 22 Aug 1976 version

Well I'm riding down Kingsley figuring I'll get a drink
I turn the radio way up loud so I don't have to think
And then I ease down on the gas looking for a moment when the world seems right
And I go tearing into the heart of something in the night

And I picked this chick up hitch-hiking, she hung her head out the window and she screamed
Said she was looking for someplace to go, to die or be redeemed
So you can ride this road 'til dawn, without another human being in sight
Cause baby everybody's gone looking for something in the night

Sometimes you gotta stop running, sometimes I wanna stop my fooling around*
Somehow I got stuff running 'round my head, I can't live with or live down
She wants me to push this charger until the whole world disappears out of sight
And me and her, we could surrender to the justice of something in the night*

Because nothing is ever forgotten, and nothing is forgiven*
You just walk out on the street, trying to take all the heat that they're giving*
And now it's just winners and losers, mumbling about some vague wrong and right
I don't understand it, oh, and kids like us, rumbling, girl, over something in the night

And now all them people out on the island, that'll lock their doors and take their children by the hand
And put on your black dress baby, because tonight the devil will walk these streets like a man
And I'm gonna bring along my switchblade in case that fool wants to fight
And he can meet us running out on the highway, chasing something in the night
Woahhh that something in the night
Woahhh that something in the night

Page last updated: 05 Feb 2008

The above lyrics correspond to the live 22 Aug 1976 performance at Civic Center, Springfield, MA.

This version is close to the live 01 Aug 1976 version that was used between 01 Aug 1976 and 25 Oct 1976.

As it is the case with the live 01 Aug 1976 version, this version's lyrics are very different from those of the album's version.

* These lines are the main difference between this version and the live 01 Aug 1976 version.

List of available versions of SOMETHING IN THE NIGHT on this website:

• Album's version (more details)
• Early outtake (slightly different to the album's version)
• Live 01 Aug 1976 version (very different to the album's version)
• Live 22 Aug 1976 version (close to the live 01 Aug 1976 version)
• Live 09 Oct 1976 version (very different to the album's version)
• Live 27 Oct 1976 version (very different to the album's version)
• Live 28 Oct 1976 version (very different to the album's version)
• Live 30 Oct 1976 version (different to the album's version)
• Live 04 Nov 1976 version (similar to the live 30 Oct 1976 version)
• Live 13 Feb 1977 version (different to the album's version)
• Live 14 Mar 1977 version (similar to the album's version)
• Live 19 May 1978 take #1 (similar to the album's version)
• Live 19 May 1978 take #2 (similar to the album's version)
• Live 31 May 1978 version (similar to the album's version)
• Live 18 Oct 2002 version (slightly different to the album's version)
• Live 07 Oct 2005 version (slightly different to the album's version)
• Aram's version (cover)
• Matthew Ryan's version (cover)

Thanks Jake (ol'catfishinthelake from BTX and Greasy Lake) for this version's lyrics.