Beat Of The Night Lyrics - Singles - Boomtown Rats

It was cold that night from across the west and the days had lost their spark 

And the yellow lights split the rain so bright and the dogs had lost their bark 

What Hitchcock plots were hatched that night behind the shuttered door 

When the curtain shook and the head beat down and he quietly was withdrawn 

And we moved in the Beat 

Beat of the Night, Beat of the Night 

Beat of the Night 

So I made my way to the top of the hill and I looked on down the road 

And the air stood still in the frost and chill as the hours and the minutes unfold 

But the trees they shook and the house creeked as though seized by a violent rage 

And the wind bites deep and the wires shriek like a noise from beyond the grave 

And they moved in the Beat 

Swayed in the Beat 

Talk in the Beat 

The Beat of the Night 

The sound of women crying made me go and investigate, 

and I walked past a row of houses 'til I reached #48 

Where the huddled neighbors stood about, frightened shocked and scared 

And the bleating of an ambulance cut through the thickening air 

And with a sickening sense of deja vu I knew what was coming next 

I'd been here before, but when or how, I couldn't quiet connect 

And from an open-windowed upstairs flat someone sang along 

Yes I knew the words and I knew the tune 

They were playing that beautiful song that went Yeah, yeah, yeah (Yeah yeah yeah)(Yeah yeah yeah) (Yeah yeah yeah) (Yeah yeah yeah) 

And we moved in the Beat (Yeah yeah yeah) 

Rocked in the Beat (Yeah yeah yeah) 

Talkin' in the Beat (Yeah yeah yeah) 

The Beat of the Night (Yeah yeah yeah) 

The Beat of the Night (Yeah yeah yeah) 

The Beat of the Night (Yeah yeah yeah) 

A black man slumped up against the door 

And a Brown man lay face down on the floor 

And a white woman sobbed on the second stair 

And all the blood was red 

And then they moved in the Beat 

Rockin' in the Beat 

Talkin' in the Beat 

The Beat of the Night [x4] 

Yes the tears of rage and the tears of anger flowed to the river bank 

And at the local disco dancehall they were cranking up the skank 

And the pulse of the noise went through the night into the washed-up back of my feet 

And I smelled the fear and I tasted blood and the soundtrack was the Beat 

As we moved in the Beat (Yeah yeah yeah) 

Rockin' in the Beat (Yeah yeah yeah) 

Murder in the Beat (Yeah yeah yeah) 

The Beat of the Night (Yeah yeah yeah) [repeat til end]