You Know The Night Lyrics - Standing In The Breach - Jackson Browne

You know the night I met you 

My eyes had been 

Looking for you all over everywhere. 

Over low roads. 

Down highways. 

Bald deserts. 

But looking 

Without finding you. 

That was it. 

And the season why this was so 

was because 

I had seen so much troubled 

waters and storms on the streets. 

And this caused me 

To want to do 

Something about it. 

Something to help not only just us 

But people of all kinds come closer and 

closer 

and closer together. 

You know the night. 

Your eyes had this same shine 

about them I noticed 

and when I first looked through 

the wild wayward mist 

I felt such a warm friendly cool 

sunny smile 

That I wanted to look in your 

Eyes for all time 

I just felt like you feel when 

you feel like the angels are curling your 

hair and you feel like the devil is 

scratching your heel. 

But if my jellied brain turns to 

ashes and sand 

There will still be such night smiles 

across all the land 

There will still be 

Such faces 

Meeting here in this dark 

and there 'round the corner or 

maybe the park. 

It is when we meet this way 

and look 

at each other 

we get hold of our scattered aims 

and 

Bring them 

and beat them 

and wrestle 

and fight them 

and heat them 

and beat them and weld them 

together 

Like iron from the valley 

and fire from the skies 

This blast furnace heat burns 

in our peoples eyes. 

And from a raw aimless hunk 

of dead matter 

our love gives it vision 

and love gives it shape 

and it's born and it works 

Like a new little baby 

It sputters 

It mutters 

It goes and it stutters 

and walks on the sidewalks 

and falls in the gutters. 

But it always and always seems 

to move and be able 

To get up. To raise up. 

up on its feet again. 

Did you feel this way too when I met you? 

Did you look at me 

and think 

Here's me a guy 

That hopes like I hope 

and sees the same kind of new 

dreams I see? 

Because you wondered, I know 

If your hopes could find shape in 

the words that we used there 

to work back the fog - 

Your hopes and your plans for the 

good of the people 

Could all of your hundred and one 

Dreams just as bright as the sun 

and all of your wants and your hottest 

desires 

Find shape in the flow of my talk? 

and there by ourselves while the bronze 

statues watched us 

We talked some. Kept still for 

a time. Talked a little more. 

Your hair had the smell of cleaness 

about it and the wind helped my fingers to 

play with your curls - 

and the wind and the mist caused the 

night to blow colder and we brought our hopes 

there a little bit closer - 

Hopes that we hoped 

Work that we wanted 

Jobs we were doing, aimed to do. 

Quiet idle words, of the church and 

the steeple. The union. The war. 

And the world full of people. 

And you gave my mind such a 

deep kind of light 

It blasted the fog. 

It blew up the night. 

It pulled back the curtains of 

clouds from above us 

and all of the stars came out and 

winked at us 

and I yelled up at the stars 

and said 

You stars! Go ahead! Shine as 

bright as you want to! 

Light up this round world and shine 

if you want to! 

And it was brighter than usual 

and for some reason or other 

The night 

Turned off clear. And so cold. 

It caused me to snuggle up closer 

and hold 

Hold on 

Hold on to the ground we had gained. 

Hold on to the new inch of life we discovered. 

Hold on to the night. 

We exchanged our dreams as we sat 

there a while 

word by word. 

Plan by plan. 

Mile by mile. 

You looked a bit hungry and skinny to 

me but 

I had me the notion you'd soon fatten up. 

You know how love is and you know 

how dreams are. If you don't stay in love you 

soon wilt away and you get sort of hungry 

looking they say. So I thought you'd fill out 

and look a lot better with a little work and 

the right kind of weather. 

You knew I was raily and some out of 

shape. And you knew that my eyes and my 

feet didn't mate. I was hunched and walked 

crooked - but you overlooked this because 

with the right kind of home life and care 

my old carcass and brain could be good 

for more wear. 

Your grace of walk and action drove 

me into fits. I tried to, but couldn't 

think about anything else. This world 

is an awful big machine and it moves 

all together. No force on earth can 

hold it back - and I am in all of this 

and moving with it - and I feel the 

motion and the rhythm of the universe 

moving with these planets. 

And moving the earth along with them. 

And the earth moving the people 

Along 

With it 

And the attraction of your face and 

your form 

Pulled me. Pushed me. Drew me. 

It was ten thousand times stronger than 

all of the rest of these 

Powers multiplied by ten. 

And I felt harmony and sweetness 

and felt strife 

And wanted to walk with you as my wife 

Down to the foamy docks to ride a 

good boat 

Across the troubled waters of this 

life. 

You know the night I met you. 

You know the night I met you 

My eyes had been 

Looking for you all over everywhere. 

Over low roads. Down highways. Bald deserts. 

I just felt like you feel when 

you feel like the angels are curling your 

hair and you feel like the devil is 

scratching your heel. 

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