“night of the swallow”
from 1982’s “the dreaming”

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the night doesn’t like it looks just like your face on the moon to me

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and i won’t let you do what you want to do it’s

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funny how even now you’re laughing

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i won’t let you do it

verses 2+3

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if you go i’ll let the law know and the’ll head you off when you touch the ground
in malta catch a swallow for all of the guilty to set them free

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ohh , please don’t go through with this i don’t like the sound of it , it’s
wings fill the window and they beat and bleed , they

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funny how even now you’re miles away
hold the sky on the other side of borderline

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i won’t let you do it i won’t let you do it

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i won’t let you go through with it

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meet them over at dover
i’ll just pilot the motor
take them over the water
( 2 . only ) :
like a swallow flying to malta

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with a hired plane and no names mentioned

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tonight’s the night of the flight be – fore you know i’ll be over the

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water like A swallow there’s no risk i’ll wisk them

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up in the moonlight and though pigs can fly they’ll never

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find me posing as the night and i’m home before the

G ( 1 . F#m/a and to 2 . “in malta . . . ” )
morning

2 .

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give me a break oh let me try give me something to show for my

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mis’rable life give me something to take would you break even my wings like a swallow

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let me let me go . . . with a hired plane

instrumental between :
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let me let me go . . . with a hired plane

end :

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