Night of the Swallow by Kate Bush Lyrics
[Verse 1]
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
[Refrain]
I won't let you do it
[Verse 2]
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
[Refrain]
I won't let you do it
I won't let you do it
I won't let you go through with it
[Pre-Chorus 1]
"Meet them over at Dover
I'll just pilot the motor
Take them over the water
[Chorus]
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 me posing as the night
And I'm home before the morning"
[Verse 3]
In Malta, catch a swallow
For all of the guilty - to let them free
Wings fill the window
And they beat and bleed
They hold the sky on the other side
Of borderlines
[Refrain]
I won't let you do it
I won't let you do it
I won't let you go through with it
[Pre-Chorus 2]
"Meet them over at Dover
I'll just pilot the motor
Take them over the water
Like a swallow flying to Malta
[Chorus]
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 me posing as the night
And I'm home before the morning"
[Bridge]
"Give me a break!
Ooh, let me fly!
Give me something to show
For my miserable life!
Something to take!
Would you break even my wings
Like a swallow?"
[Chorus]
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
There's no risk
I'll whisk them up in no moonlight
And though pigs can fly
They'll never find me posing as the night
And I'm home before the morning"
[Chorus]
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 me posing as the night
Like a swallow
And I'm home before the morning"
[Outro]
But you're not a swallow
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
[Refrain]
I won't let you do it
[Verse 2]
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
[Refrain]
I won't let you do it
I won't let you do it
I won't let you go through with it
[Pre-Chorus 1]
"Meet them over at Dover
I'll just pilot the motor
Take them over the water
[Chorus]
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 me posing as the night
And I'm home before the morning"
[Verse 3]
In Malta, catch a swallow
For all of the guilty - to let them free
Wings fill the window
And they beat and bleed
They hold the sky on the other side
Of borderlines
[Refrain]
I won't let you do it
I won't let you do it
I won't let you go through with it
[Pre-Chorus 2]
"Meet them over at Dover
I'll just pilot the motor
Take them over the water
Like a swallow flying to Malta
[Chorus]
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 me posing as the night
And I'm home before the morning"
[Bridge]
"Give me a break!
Ooh, let me fly!
Give me something to show
For my miserable life!
Something to take!
Would you break even my wings
Like a swallow?"
[Chorus]
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
There's no risk
I'll whisk them up in no moonlight
And though pigs can fly
They'll never find me posing as the night
And I'm home before the morning"
[Chorus]
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 me posing as the night
Like a swallow
And I'm home before the morning"
[Outro]
But you're not a swallow