They Come at Night

Album: Negative Capability (2018)
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  • "They Come at Night" was written by Marianne Faithfull with American rock musician Mark Lanegan after the November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks. The singer told Mojo she got the idea from producer Hal Willner, who has a theory that every 70 years the Nazis return in some form or another. "Trump, Isis and the whole Brexit thing is part of it," she explained.
  • Faithfull debuted the song during her concert at the Bataclan theatre in November 2016, a year after the terrorist attack took place there. She recalled: "They'd just wiped the blood off the walls. We were the first people to go there and do a show - an extraordinary experience."

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