When The City Sleeps

Album: Harvest Years (1975)
  • In the shining sun
    My images they run
    Confusing all I've done before I've begun
    And every city scene
    Becomes a roaring stream
    A nightmare and a dream rolled into one

    But when the city sleeps
    I'm up and on my feet
    Along the darkened streets
    Hear me run

    Through the empty town
    Running, laughing, down
    No-one else around, to bother old me
    By factories I sway
    My shadows seem to play
    To do this in the day, I'd never be free

    But when the city sleeps Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Comments: 1

  • Volker from GermanyThis was released in 1972 under the moniker "BOMBADIL" (a Tolkien character), not BJH. The Composition is credited to "Lester Forest" (aka Woolly Wolstenolme), whereas the A-Side containing the instrumental "Breathless" is credited to "Terry Bull" (aka John Lees). Source: Discogs.
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