The Night Is Not My Friend

"You live; death cannot exist for you"

(- from Master of Kung-Fu)

"Only love could pick a nested pair of steel Brahman locks" she said

I said "keep talking"

"Both the ghosts and all the people whom they haunted are dead" she said

I said "Keep talking"

When the darkness overwhelms me and I say "this time I won't get up"

You please keep talking

And remind me of these precious words I wrote when the time was right

Or just keep talking to me

"Now this record keeps on going but the high points are gone" I said

She says "Hush, darling"

"She will never, she will never understand" I said

She says "Hush, darling"

When I'm haunted by a tenderness of heart in a troubled mind

she says "Hush, darling"

And the dark and dull and dead and grey submarine that was my life

Comes afloat, my darling

Who was I fooling? The night is not my friend

Who was I fooling? The night is not the end

It's both the passionate and factual truth that I'll fall in love again

And I'll say darling

And the patterns I repeated are just only pebbles in a pond

That will stop at nothing

Oh what a fool, what a fool, such a fool to try to die

When it's you, it was you, who was on this other side

Oh they'll say I'll fall to believe in one more time

But when you come to me, if I fall I fall to climb

Who was I fooling? The night is not my friend

Who was I fooling? The night is not the end

I'm ready to decide the night is not my friend

I'm ready one more time

So just keep talking, darling