Tender Is The Night

Album: Lawyers In Love (1983)
Charted: 25
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  • Between the darkness on the street
    And the houses filling up with light
    Between the stillness in my heart
    And the roar of the approaching night
    Somebody's calling after somebody
    Somebody turns the corner out of sight
    Looking for somebody
    Somewhere in the night
    Tender is the night
    Tender, when you hold your baby tight
    Tender, tender are the motions, tender is the night
    Between a life that we expected
    And the way it's always been
    I can't walk back in again
    After the way we fight
    When just outside there are people laughing
    Living lives we used to lead
    Chasing down the love they need
    Somewhere in the night
    Tender is the night
    Tender, and the benediction of the neon light
    Tender, tender are the hunters, tender is the night
    You're gonna want me tonight
    When you're ready to surrender
    Forget about who's right
    When you're ready to remember
    It's another world at night
    When you're ready to be tender
    Tender, tender tender
    Tender, tender tender
    Tender

    And in the hard light of an angry sun
    No one remembers what was said or done
    Tender are the words they choose
    You win, I win, we lose
    Tender
    Tender is the night
    Tender
    The benediction of the neon light
    Tender
    Tender are the hunters
    Tender is the night
    When they hold each other tight
    Tender
    Tender are the undercover
    Tender
    The stranger and the secret lover
    Tender
    Tender are the motions
    Tender is the night
    When you hold your baby tight
    Tender, tender, tender
    Tender, tender, tender Writer/s: DANNY KORTCHMAR, JACKSON BROWNE, RUSS KUNKEL
    Publisher: Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Chomiji from Takoma Park, MdA song about "the wonders of love"? It's also about the agony of fighting with your love and how easily the pleasure of love turns to pain. For heaven's sake, read the verse that begins "And in the hard light of an angry sun."
  • Leo from ConnecticutThe music video also features Daryl Hannah, to whom Browne was in a relationship with at the time.
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