(These lyrics were originally from Andrew Marvick's
The Garden.)
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"Night of the Swallow"
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Written by Kate Bush
- The night doesn't like it.
- Looks just like your face on the moon, to me.
- And I won't let you do
- What you want to do.
- It's funny how, even now,
- You're laughing.
- I won't let you do it.
- If you go, I'll let the law know,
- And they'll head you off when you touch the ground.
- Ooh, please, don't go through with this.
- I don't like the sound of it.
- It's funny how, even now,
- You're miles away.
- I won't let you do it.
- I won't let you do it.
- I won't let you go through with it.
-
- "Meet them over at Dover.
- I'll just pilot the motor,
- Take them over the water
-
- "With a hired plane,
- And no names mentioned.
- Tonight's the night of the flight.
- Before you know,
- I'll be over the water
-
- "Like a swallow.
- There's no risk.
- I'll whisk them up in no moonlight.
- And though pigs can fly,
- They'll never find us
- Posing as the night,
- And I'm home before the morning."
- In Malta, catch a swallow,
- For all of the guilty--to set them free.
- Wings fill the window,
- And they beat and bleed.
- They hold the sky on the other side
- Of BORDERlines.
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- "Meet them over at Dover.
- I'll just pilot the motor,
- Take them over the water,
- Like a swallow flying to Malta,
-
- "With a hired plane,
- And no names mentioned.
- Tonight's the night of the flight.
- Before you know,
- I'll be over the water
- Like a swallow.
-
- "There's no risk.
- I'll whisk them up in no moonlight.
- And though pigs can fly,
- They'll never find us
- Posing as the night,
- And I'm home before the morning.
-
- "Give me a break!
- Ooh, let me try!
- Give me something to show
- For my miserable life!
- Give me something to take!
- Would you break even my wings,
- Just like a swallow?
-
- "Let me--let me go
- With a hired plane,
- And no names mentioned.
- Tonight's the night of the flight.
- Before you know,
- I'll be over the water
- Like a swallow.
- ("Let me--let me go!")
-
- "There's no risk.
- I'll whisk them up in no moonlight.
- And though pigs can fly,
- They'll never find us
- Posing as the night,
- And I'm home before the morning.
- ("Let me--let me go!")
-
- "With a hired plane,
- And no names mentioned.
- Tonight's the night of the flight.
- Before you know,
- I'll be over the water
- Like a swallow.
- ("Let me--let me go!")
-
- "There's no risk.
- I'll whisk them up in no moonlight.
- And though pigs can fly,
- They'll never find us
- Posing as the night,
- And I'm home before the morning--"
- But you're not a swallow!
©1982 Novercia Ltd.
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