The Beat Of The Night-The Boomtown Rats

[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 - The Boomtown Rats [00:20.61]It was cold that night from across [00:21.89]The west and the days had lost their spark [00:24.32] [00:25.21]And the yellow lights split the rain so bright [00:27.61]And the dogs had lost their bark [00:29.20] [00:30.17]What Hitchcock plots were hatched [00:31.19]That night behind the shuttered door [00:34.44] [00:35.19]When the curtain shook [00:36.44]And the head beat down [00:37.65]And he quietly was withdrawn [00:38.66] [00:39.52]And we moved in the Beat [00:42.50]Beat of the Night Beat of the Night [00:45.97] [00:47.53]Beat of the Night [00:48.39] [00:50.10]So I made my way to the top of the hill [00:52.25]And I looked on down the road [00:54.24] [00:55.10]And the air stood still in the frost [00:57.13]And chill as the hours and the minutes unfold [00:59.60] [01:00.14]But the trees they shook and the house creeked [01:02.04]As though seized by a violent rage [01:05.03]And the wind bites deep [01:06.38]And the wires shriek like [01:08.06]A noise from beyond the grave [01:09.53]And they moved in the Beat [01:10.88] [01:12.31]Swayed in the Beat [01:12.92] [01:14.70]Talk in the Beat [01:15.58] [01:17.24]The Beat of the Night [01:18.45] [01:20.32]The sound of women crying [01:21.32] [01:22.08]Made me go and investigate [01:23.78] [01:25.05]And I walked past a row of [01:26.46]Houses 'til I reached the number 48 [01:30.13]Where the huddled neighbors stood about [01:32.74]Frightened shocked and scared [01:34.55] [01:35.11]And the bleating of an ambulance [01:37.89]Cut through the thickening air [01:39.98]And with a sickening sense of deja [01:41.50]Vu I knew what was coming next [01:43.43] [01:44.95]I'd been here before [01:45.97] [01:46.55]But when or how [01:47.85]I couldn't quiet connect [01:49.91]And from an open-windowed [01:51.57]Upstairs flat someone sang along [01:54.39] [01:55.12]Yes I knew the words and I knew the tune [01:57.65]They were playing that beautiful song that went [02:00.20]Yeah yeah yeah [02:02.35](Yeah yeah yeah)(Yeah yeah yeah) [02:07.13](Yeah yeah yeah) (Yeah yeah yeah) [02:11.00] [02:12.00]And we moved in the Beat (Yeah yeah yeah) [02:14.80]Rocked in the Beat (Yeah yeah yeah) [02:16.65] [02:17.23]Talkin' in the Beat (Yeah yeah yeah) [02:18.97] [02:19.78]The Beat of the Night (Yeah yeah yeah) [02:22.26]The Beat of the Night [02:24.61]The Beat of the Night [02:25.79] [02:27.77]A black man slumped up against the door [02:32.46]And a Brown man lay face down on the floor [02:37.31]And a white woman sobbed on the second stair [02:42.62]And all the blood was red [02:45.63] [02:46.94]And then they moved in the Beat [02:48.32] [02:49.80]Rockin' in the Beat [02:50.43] [02:52.24]Talkin' in the Beat [02:53.12] [02:54.82]The Beat of the Night [02:57.15]The Beat of the Night [02:58.14] [02:59.50]The Beat of the Night [03:00.78] [03:02.12]The Beat of the Night [03:03.11] [03:04.43]Yes the tears of rage and the tears of [03:30.05]Anger flowed to the river bank [03:31.50] [03:32.41]And at the local disco dancehall [03:33.60] [03:34.77]They were cranking up the skank [03:36.65] [03:37.55]And the pulse of the noise went through [03:39.22]The night into the washed-up back of my feet [03:41.89] [03:42.54]And I smelled the fear [03:44.10]And I tasted blood [03:45.12]And the soundtrack was the Beat [03:46.35]As we moved in the Beat (Yeah yeah yeah) [03:49.59]Rockin' in the Beat (Yeah yeah yeah) [03:52.32]Murder in the Beat (Yeah yeah yeah) [03:54.23] [03:54.90]The Beat of the Night (Yeah yeah yeah)