SOMETHING IN THE NIGHT^©

Live 27 Oct 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 I take her to the floor looking for a moment when the world seems right
And I go tearing into the guts of something in the night

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

Said she was born with nothing, said she would better, better off that way
As soon as you got something, somebody comes along and they try to take it away
She wants me to push my old Chevy, together, we could make it clean, make it fast, we could make it out of sight
We'd surrender to the justice of something in the night

Because tonight nothing is forgotten or forgiven, when it's your last time around
And I got stuff running 'round my head, I can't live with or without
Well, inside all the big boys and the players, they sit around the tables and mumble, about something wrong and right
While outside kids like us rumble, baby, over something in the night

Tonight me and that little girl, we're gonna love each other 'til we got nothing left to show
We gonna drive my old car as hard and fast as she will go
For all the ones caught laughin' in the face of the devil, for waitin' when the moment is right
Somewhere we'll surrender to the beauty of something in the night
Woahhh there's something in the night
Woahhh there's something in the night

Page last updated: 03 Feb 2008

The above lyrics correspond to the live 27 Oct 1976 version at The Spectrum Arena, Philadelphia, PA.

Verse 1: will later appear on the album's version.
Verse 2: similar to the one on the live 01 Aug 1976 version.
Verse 3: rewritten.
Verse 4: similar to the one on the live 09 Oct 1976 version.
Verse 5: rewritten, never used again.

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)