Warren wanted a Beach Boys thing for this one, and Carl Wilson and Billy Hinsche came in, with Carl arranging the vocal parts. The other harmony vocalists (credited as the "Gentlemen Boys") were Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, Zevon's longtime backers Waddy Wachtel and Jorge Calderon, and Linda Rondstadt/Stone Poneys guitarist Kenny Edwards.
Look, late night
I hit your phone and I be asking if you're alright
And what you up to? Wanna go for a drive?
I take you somewhere girl I ain't the usual type, you know
So, baby let me scoop you up
This coupe is known for Baby Making Woman love
I know a place that we can vibe turn that volume up
And you can laugh at me the way that I just dodged the fox
I think it's sweet you entertaining me
We'll take a drive this is London, many sights to see
And like the eye you been circling my mind
Got me thinking how our paths they been more than intertwined
All this passion ain't for fashion
I'm alive with you I feel it ain't no capping
And keep it ghetto that's an angel in stilettos
Diabetic from your vibe Cause it's sweet like amaretto
Look, It's a late night
We can stay up 'till the morning let the sun rise
We can laugh, make memories of those good times
Vibing to the twilight captivating moonlight
Let's take a walk around your block with your pedigrees
You got me heated doing work calculate degrees
That's the right angle watching how your hips travel
Nineties born I can tell the way the curls dangle
Tell me why you're so divine?
Let me park up the whip, baby you can drive
Hit the brakes, take a minute to adjust your chair
Put it into gear I'll show you how you shift and steer
It ain't summertime but still we exercise the night
You feeling chilly? throw my arms around you hold you tight
Let this heat inside show me you inspire life
And you the cosmic type energy excites your mind
Let me flow with you show me how the planets move
They aligning with our timing have you seen the moon?
I know you feel it too this energy is something new
Let my heart consume every little part of you
Look, It's a late night
We can stay up 'till the morning let the sun rise
We can laugh, make memories of those good times
Vibing to the twilight captivating moonlight
Look, It's a late night
We can stay up 'till the morning let the sun rise
We can laugh, make memories of those good times
Vibing to the twilight captivating moonlight
I hit your phone and I be asking if you're alright
And what you up to? Wanna go for a drive?
I take you somewhere girl I ain't the usual type, you know
So, baby let me scoop you up
This coupe is known for Baby Making Woman love
I know a place that we can vibe turn that volume up
And you can laugh at me the way that I just dodged the fox
I think it's sweet you entertaining me
We'll take a drive this is London, many sights to see
And like the eye you been circling my mind
Got me thinking how our paths they been more than intertwined
All this passion ain't for fashion
I'm alive with you I feel it ain't no capping
And keep it ghetto that's an angel in stilettos
Diabetic from your vibe Cause it's sweet like amaretto
Look, It's a late night
We can stay up 'till the morning let the sun rise
We can laugh, make memories of those good times
Vibing to the twilight captivating moonlight
Let's take a walk around your block with your pedigrees
You got me heated doing work calculate degrees
That's the right angle watching how your hips travel
Nineties born I can tell the way the curls dangle
Tell me why you're so divine?
Let me park up the whip, baby you can drive
Hit the brakes, take a minute to adjust your chair
Put it into gear I'll show you how you shift and steer
It ain't summertime but still we exercise the night
You feeling chilly? throw my arms around you hold you tight
Let this heat inside show me you inspire life
And you the cosmic type energy excites your mind
Let me flow with you show me how the planets move
They aligning with our timing have you seen the moon?
I know you feel it too this energy is something new
Let my heart consume every little part of you
Look, It's a late night
We can stay up 'till the morning let the sun rise
We can laugh, make memories of those good times
Vibing to the twilight captivating moonlight
Look, It's a late night
We can stay up 'till the morning let the sun rise
We can laugh, make memories of those good times
Vibing to the twilight captivating moonlight
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suicidemoon and rabbithowl are right. Here is the story:
"Deeply lost in the night. Just as one sometimes lowers one's head to reflect, thus to be utterly lost in the night. All around people are asleep. It's just play acting, an innocent self-deception, that they sleep in houses, in safe beds, under a safe roof, stretched out or curled up on mattresses, in sheets, under blankets; in reality they have flocked together as they had once upon a time and again later in a deserted region, a camp in the open, a countless number of men, an army, a people, under a cold sky on cold earth, collapsed where once they had stood, forehead pressed on the arm, face to the ground, breathing quietly. And you are watching, are one of the watchmen, you find the next one by brandishing a burning stick from the brushwood pile beside you. Why are you watching? Someone must watch, it is said. Someone must be there."
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This song is the best i think on the Paris album. The album version is barely audible anyway. The paris version howvere is loud and clear and funky.
It's about a man (the narrator) who is possibly insane who breaks into people's houses and... It's never really explained, is it?
i read somewhere it was written after robert read Franz Kafka's short story "at night"....which does fit
Robert is known for writing songs after books(or being inspired by them). i.e. Killing An Arab, Charlotte Sometimes, A Letter To Elise . . .
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This song actually is about the Kafka story, Robert admitted in a magazine article back around 1984. The Top had just come out, but the interviewer didn't give a shit about that and just kept asking about Seventeen Seconds.
I suppose it makes sense that this song be about Kafka's story, but for me it holds another meaning. For me, this song is about someone in a really dark state of mind, perhaps psychotically depressed. "The changes at night" refer to his tormented mental state and the people who "sleep in a safe bed" are the society around him that don't share his torment and are simply getting on with their lives. These people are "unaware" of the torments he is going through, and the narrator feels increasingly alienated from them. For me, this song reflects the sense of alienation and despair that some people feel and the contrast with others who can't relate to their anguish, but it seems someone always "has to be there" in that dark tortured inner world. Another sad and moving song about the human condition. At least that's how I interpret it.