SOMETHING IN THE NIGHT^©

Live 28 Oct 1976 version

Well I'm driving down Kingsley figuring I'll get a drink
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

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
You can ride this road to dawn, without any human being in sight
'Cause baby everybody's gone looking for something in the night

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

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

And now all them folks out on the island, they lock their doors and take their children by hand
And put on your red dress behind that seat, tonight the devil will walk these streets like a man
Bring along my switchblade in case that old fool wants to fight
I'll take him, I'm gonna take him, I'm gonna take him out at the parking lot somewhere in the night

Page last updated: 03 Feb 2008

The above lyrics correspond to the live 28 Oct 1976 performance at the Palladium Theatre, New York City, NY.

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: similar to the one on the live 27 Oct 1976 version.
Verse 4: similar to the one on the live 09 Oct 1976 version.
Verse 5: rewritten, but has some similarities to the ones used on the live 01 Aug 1976 version and live 09 Oct 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)