Night Of The Swallow

Album: The Dreaming (1982)
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  • The night doesn't like it
    Looks just like your face on the moon to me
    And I won't let you do
    What you want to do
    It's funny how, even now, you're laughing.

    I won't let you do it!

    If you go, I'll let the law know
    And they'll head you off when you touch the ground
    Ooh, please, don't go through with this
    I don't like the sound of it
    It's funny how, even now, you're miles away

    I won't let you do it
    I won't let you do it
    I won't let you go through with it!

    Meet them over at Dover
    I'll just pilot the motor
    Take them over the water

    With a hired plane
    And no names mentioned
    Tonight's the night of the flight
    Before you know
    I'll be over the water

    Like a swallow
    There's no risk
    I'll whisk them up in no moonlight
    And though pigs can fly
    They'll never find us
    Posing as the night
    And I'm home before the morning

    In Malta, catch a swallow
    For all of the guilty to set them free
    Wings fill the window
    And they beat and bleed
    They hold the sky on the other side of borderlines

    Meet them over at Dover
    I'll just pilot the motor
    Take them over the water
    Like a swallow flying to Malta

    With a hired plane
    And no names mentioned
    Tonight's the night of the flight
    Before you know
    I'll be over the water
    Like a swallow

    There's no risk
    I'll whisk them up in no moonlight
    And though pigs can fly
    They'll never find us
    Posing as the night
    And I'm home before the morning

    Give me a break!
    Oh, let me try!
    Give me something to show
    For my miserable life!
    Give me something to take!
    Would you break even my wings
    Just like a swallow?

    Let me, let me go
    With a hired plane
    And no names mentioned
    Tonight's the night of the flight
    Before you know
    I'll be over the water
    Like a swallow

    ("Let me, let me go!")
    There's no risk
    I'll whisk them up in no moonlight
    And though pigs can fly
    They'll never find us
    Posing as the night
    And I'm home before the morning

    ("Let me, let me go!")
    With a hired plane
    And no names mentioned
    Tonight's the night of the flight
    Before you know
    I'll be over the water
    Like a swallow

    ("Let me, let me go!")
    There's no risk
    I'll whisk them up in no moonlight
    And though pigs can fly
    They'll never find us
    Posing as the night
    And I'm home before the morning
    But you're not a swallow! Writer/s: KATE BUSH
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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