The Night Will Only Know Lyrics

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Cover art for The Night Will Only Know lyrics by Garth Brooks

That night will live forever Their first time to lie together They were finally where desire dared them to go Both belonging to another But longing to be lovers

TELLS ME THEY WERE PROBABLY BOTH MARRIED AND SLIPPED OFF TO HAVE AN AFFAIR

Promising each other that the night will only know Parked on some old backstreet They laid down in the back seat And fell into the fire down below But they would pay for their deceiving For a deadly web was weaving Why they picked that spot that evening

THE SPOT BEING MENTIONED IS IMPORTANT. THAT SUGGESTS TO ME THEY DON'T KNOW THE VICTIM.

Lord, the night will only know Well within the innuendos Just outside the steamy windows The night was shattered by a woman's scream Motionless and frightened The grip of fate had tightened And with trembling hands they wiped away the steam

NO INTERPRETATION NEEDED HERE

They saw a woman pleading Stumbling, begging and retreating' Til she became the victim of her foe

IS THE FOE ANOTHER HUMAN OR THE INCREDIBLY SCREWED UP THING SHE SAW (HER CAR, HUSBAND, ECT...?)

And they watched her fall in silence To save their own alliance But the reason for the violence

MAYBE SHE HURT HERSELF? SCARFED DOWN PAIN PILLS AND OTHER SELF-DESTRUCTION

Just the night will only know And every paper ran the story She was stripped of all her glory And the told exactly how the woman died Abandoned and forsaken Too many pills were taken And they ruled the woman's death a suicide

MAYBE IT WAS A SUICIDE? MAYBE HER HUSBAND'S INFEDILITY DROVE HER CRAZY AND SHE HURT HERSELF? (I'VE KNOWN OF DEPLOYED MEMBERS COMMITTING SUICIDE OVERSEAS WHEN THEY FIND OUT THEIR SPOUSE BACK HOME IS CHEATING)

Bound by their behavior They could have been her savior Now guilt becomes the endless debt they owe

MAYBE IT WOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED IF THEY HADN'T HAD THE AFFAIR?

But another crime was committed And it's never been admitted Have the guilty been acquitted Lord, the night will only know

ALL PREVIOUS EXPLANATIONS, IF INDEED CORRECT, MAKE THIS LAST ONE OBVIOUS.

My Interpretation