SOMETHING IN THE NIGHT^©

Live 04 Nov 1976 version

Well I'm riding down Kingsley figuring I'll get a drink
And 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
I end up tearing into the guts of something in the night

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
I said well you can ride 'til dawn, without another human being in sight
But baby everybody's gone looking for something in the night

She said she was born with nothing, said she was maybe better off that way
As soon as you get something, they send somebody to come along and try to take it away
She wants me to push this old car, just together me and her, we could make it clean, we could make it fast, we could make it out of sight
We could surrender to the justice of something in the night

And I know that nothing is forgotten or forgiven, and you only got one time around
This stuff running 'round my head, I can't live with or without
And inside, inside all the big boys and the players, they sit around them tables and mumble about something, something wrong and right
While outside kids like us rumble, babe, over something in the night

And when we found the things we loved, and they were crushed and dying in the dirt
And me and her, we tried to pick up, pick up some of the pieces and get away fast without getting hurt
I should've known, because they caught us at the state line and burned our cars in one, in one last fire fight
And then they sent us running blind in the swamps, chasin' something in the night
Woahhh there's something in the night
Woahhh there's something in, in the night
Woahhh

Page last updated: 03 Feb 2008

The above lyrics correspond to the live 04 Nov 1976 performance at Palladium Theatre, New York City, NY.

This version is similar to the live 30 Oct 1976 version that was used between 29 Oct 1976 and 04 Nov 1976.

As it is the case with the live 30 Oct 1976 version, this version's lyrics are different from those of the album's 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)