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The offices are emptying their pale-faced wards into the street, |
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Flickering their strip-light eyes, shivering they readjust their lives |
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From the air-conditioned heat. |
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The humdrum and mundane |
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Is nearly driving them insane. |
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But you get hooked so quick to anything |
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Even your chains, |
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You're crouching in your corner 'til they open up your cage. |
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Chorus: And when the night comes |
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It'll help you disappear |
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And when the night comes |
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Forget about the day that brought you here. |
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Frankie takes the train and makes it home in time to catch the evening news, |
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Opening a can of beans he learns the world has turned without much help from him. |
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Hey Frank, why not get drunk tonight? |
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Hey Frank, |
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I think it'll be alright, |
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You'll be too far gone to notice when the neighbors start complaining, |
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But they're used to it by now, every day's the same. (repeat chorus) |
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And when the night comes, |
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He might get on the phone, |
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She's a stuck-up bitch, |
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But she lives on her own, |
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And he heard her talking dirty to the girls the other day, |
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And she knew that he had heard her and she looked "as if to say" |
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And then later up in marketing while going through the files, |
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She bent a little too far down, then turned around and smiled. |
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He got her number, |
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He got the phone, |
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He dialed the number, |
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He heard the tone. |
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He said "Tonight's the night that I've been waiting for, Oh I know you've seen me worship you from afar, And I might tell you that I love you and I will but just for Tonight, one night, alright tonight." |
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In his three piece cunning camouflage nobody can guess what |
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Frankie's thinking, |
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Last night she said "I don't know if I'm drowning Maybey it's because I'm sinking." |
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He said "It'll be okay I'll get outta here one day" |
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And she said "Frankie, you're no different from any of the rest, They've nailed you to that table and chained you to your desk." |
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But when the night comes.... (repeat chorus) |
