The Beat Of The Night-Bob Geldof

[ti:The Beat Of The Night] [ar:Bob Geldof] [al:Great Songs Of Indifference-The Best Of Bob Geldof & The Boomtown Rats] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Beat Of The Night - Bob Geldof [00:20.62]It was cold that night from across [00:21.90]The west and the days had lost their spark [00:24.33] [00:25.22]And the yellow lights split the rain so bright [00:27.62]And the dogs had lost their bark [00:29.21] [00:30.18]What Hitchcock plots were hatched [00:31.20]That night behind the shuttered door [00:34.45] [00:35.20]When the curtain shook [00:36.45]And the head beat down [00:37.66]And he quietly was withdrawn [00:38.67] [00:39.53]And we moved in the Beat [00:42.51]Beat of the Night Beat of the Night [00:45.98] [00:47.54]Beat of the Night [00:48.40] [00:50.11]So I made my way to the top of the hill [00:52.26]And I looked on down the road [00:54.26] [00:55.12]And the air stood still in the frost [00:57.14]And chill as the hours and the minutes unfold [00:59.62] [01:00.15]But the trees they shook and the house creeked [01:02.05]As though seized by a violent rage [01:05.04]And the wind bites deep [01:06.39]And the wires shriek like [01:08.07]A noise from beyond the grave [01:09.54]And they moved in the Beat [01:10.89] [01:12.33]Swayed in the Beat [01:12.93] [01:14.72]Talk in the Beat [01:15.59] [01:17.26]The Beat of the Night [01:18.46] [01:20.33]The sound of women crying [01:21.33] [01:22.09]Made me go and investigate [01:23.79] [01:25.06]And I walked past a row of [01:26.47]Houses 'til I reached the number 48 [01:30.14]Where the huddled neighbors stood about [01:32.75]Frightened shocked and scared [01:34.56] [01:35.12]And the bleating of an ambulance [01:37.90]Cut through the thickening air [01:39.99]And with a sickening sense of deja [01:41.51]Vu I knew what was coming next [01:43.44] [01:44.96]I'd been here before [01:45.98] [01:46.56]But when or how [01:47.87]I couldn't quiet connect [01:49.92]And from an open-windowed [01:51.58]Upstairs flat someone sang along [01:54.40] [01:55.13]Yes I knew the words and I knew the tune [01:57.66]They were playing that beautiful song that went [02:00.21]Yeah yeah yeah [02:02.37](Yeah yeah yeah)(Yeah yeah yeah) [02:07.15](Yeah yeah yeah) (Yeah yeah yeah) [02:11.01] [02:12.01]And we moved in the Beat (Yeah yeah yeah) [02:14.81]Rocked in the Beat (Yeah yeah yeah) [02:16.66] [02:17.24]Talkin' in the Beat (Yeah yeah yeah) [02:18.98] [02:19.79]The Beat of the Night (Yeah yeah yeah) [02:22.27]The Beat of the Night [02:24.62]The Beat of the Night [02:25.80] [02:27.79]A black man slumped up against the door [02:32.48]And a Brown man lay face down on the floor [02:37.32]And a white woman sobbed on the second stair [02:42.63]And all the blood was red [02:45.64] [02:46.96]And then they moved in the Beat [02:48.33] [02:49.81]Rockin' in the Beat [02:50.45] [02:52.25]Talkin' in the Beat [02:53.14] [02:54.83]The Beat of the Night [02:57.16]The Beat of the Night [02:58.15] [02:59.51]The Beat of the Night [03:00.79] [03:02.13]The Beat of the Night [03:03.13] [03:04.44]Yes the tears of rage and the tears of [03:30.06]Anger flowed to the river bank [03:31.51] [03:32.42]And at the local disco dancehall [03:33.61] [03:34.78]They were cranking up the skank [03:36.67] [03:37.56]And the pulse of the noise went through [03:39.24]The night into the washed-up back of my feet [03:41.91] [03:42.55]And I smelled the fear [03:44.11]And I tasted blood [03:45.13]And the soundtrack was the Beat [03:46.36]As we moved in the Beat (Yeah yeah yeah) [03:49.60]Rockin' in the Beat (Yeah yeah yeah) [03:52.33]Murder in the Beat (Yeah yeah yeah) [03:54.25] [03:54.92]The Beat of the Night (Yeah yeah yeah)