Night Of The Swallow

Kate Bush

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!

Oooh, 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