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The Dead Of Night Lyrics

We're the horniest boys
With the corniest ploys
Who take the easiest girls
To our sleaziest worlds

With our lecherous plans
In our treacherous hands
You'd be wasting your time
Saying no, it's a crime

All that we live for you'll regret
All you remember we'll forget

We are the dead of night
We're in the zombie room
We're twilight's parasites
With self-inflicted wounds

We are the dead of night
We're in the zombie room
Heavenly oversights
Eating from silver spoons

With our decadent minds
And our innocent lines
You'll be playing our games
With your bodies in flames

When delirious fun
Has seriously begun
You'll be down on your knees
You'll be begging us please

All we're demanding you'll supply
All we're accused of we'll deny

We are the dead of night
We're in the zombie room
We're twilight's parasites
With self-inflicted wounds

We are the dead of night
We're in the zombie room
Heavenly oversights
Eating from silver spoons



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Another dark and twisted song,has a kinda ''Barrel Of A Gun'' feel to it. The ironic part is this is the hardest track from DM's Exciter album,but yet has no guitars in it at all.

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A personal fave. Methinks it's about lecherous club-crawlers, but perhaps I'm wrong.

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He's talking about perverted men who only think about sex and taking advantage of innocent women. C'mon the ladies deserve better! don't they? ......... "We're twilight's parasites"

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I agree with DMBLISS.

" We're the horniest boys With the corniest ploys Who take the easiest girls To our sleaziest worlds"

Horny guys, corny pick up lines, take the easy girls to their parents house... where they live in the basement ;)

LMAO. Thanks!

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It's probably about "teenage wildlife" xD

A glam song for the new millenium. IMHO, it's Martin's version of "Nightclubbing" by Iggy Pop/David Bowie... It's just about going out and stuff. Nightclubbing has some dark elements to it too, such as the line "We walk like a ghost".

Also, both have a triplet-feel to it. I think they're HEAVILY related ;)

And yes, it has guitars on it - it's just buried under reverb and heavy distortion. Watch the live DVD to see how he plays it!!!

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To the guy that said this song doesn't feature guitar:

You've never even heard the song or seen them live then. Martin plays guitar throughout the entire song.

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Wow, no one has commented this song? Unbelievable.

I'm not sure what its about myself, but it is an awesome song. It has such a hard, dirty sound to it. But, I think that it has to do with drugs. "Innocent lines", "silver spoons", "self-inflicted wounds" "all we're demanding you'll supply"...lots of drug references.

And yes I know, Martin writes the songs, not Dave, but this song could be written from a fly on the wall perspective.

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what an amazing song! Love the chaotic music and Dave's snarling lyrics.

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that devilish laugh near the end of "dead of night" (at around 3:56) is the sexiest thing i have heard in my life... haha. really, though.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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I was under the impression this song was about somebody who has a high position of power that's a scumbag or something to that extent. Maybe somebody like a drug dealer or somebody who runs a prostitution chain? Or maybe Disney. XD

I think this lyric is about taking advantage of groupies, and feeling somewhat guilty (and parasitic) about it.

Just look at the first section:

"We're the horniest boys With the corniest ploys Who take the easiest girls To our sleaziest worlds"

Being as popular as DM it's really easy to get chicks ("eating from silver spoons"). Presumably sleeping together is a mutual decision, but each individual girl just doesn't mean that much (which is partly why they feel guilty about it, like they're taking advantage of someone), there's been so many, and will be forgetten pretty soon ("All...

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Ops, my comment was supposed to be a general comment, and not a reply to someone.

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