Night Of The 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
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 me
Posing as the night,
And I'm home before the morning"

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

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,
Like a swallow flying to Malta,

"Give me a break!
Ooh, let me try!
Give me something to show
For my miserable life!
Give me something to take!
Would you break even my wings,
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!
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!"

But you're not a swallow!

©1982 Kate Bush Music Ltd.