Night Of The Swallow
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- The night doesn't like it.
Looks just like your face on the moon, to me.
And I won't let you do
What you want to do.
- It's funny how, even now,
You're laughing.
I won't let you do it.
- If you go, I'll let the law know,
And they'll head you off when you touch the ground.
Ooh, please, don't go through with this.
I don't like the sound of it.
- It's funny how, even now,
You're miles away.
I won't let you do it.
I won't let you do it.
I won't let you go through with it.
- "Meet them over at Dover.
I'll just pilot the motor,
Take them over the water
"With a hired plane,
And no names mentioned.
Tonight's the night of the flight.
Before you know,
I'll be over the water
Like a swallow.
"There's no risk.
I'll whisk them up in no moonlight.
And though pigs can fly,
They'll never find me
Posing as the night,
And I'm home before the morning."
- In Malta, catch a swallow,
For all of the guilty, to let them free.
Wings fill the window,
And they beat and bleed.
- They hold the sky on the other side
Of borderlines.
I won't let you do it.
I won't let you do it.
I won't let you go through with it.
- "Meet them over at Dover.
I'll just pilot the motor,
Take them over the water,
Like a swallow flying to Malta,
"With a hired plane,
And no names mentioned.
Tonight's the night of the flight.
Before you know,
I'll be over the water
Like a swallow.
"There's no risk.
I'll whisk them up in no moonlight.
And though pigs can fly,
They'll never find me
Posing as the night,
And I'm home before the morning.
"Give me a break!
Ooh, let me try!
Give me something to show
For my miserable life!
Give me something to take!
Would you break even my wings,
Like a swallow?
- "Let me, let me go
- With a hired plane,
And no names mentioned.
Tonight's the night of the flight.
Before you know,
I'll be over the water
Like a swallow.
"There's no risk.
I'll whisk them up in no moonlight.
And though pigs can fly,
They'll never find me
Posing as the night,
And I'm home before the morning.
- "Let me, let me go!
- With a hired plane,
And no names mentioned.
Tonight's the night of the flight.
Before you know,
I'll be over the water
Like a swallow.
- "Let me, let me go!
- "There's no risk.
I'll whisk them up in no moonlight.
And though pigs can fly,
They'll never find me
Posing as the night,
And I'm home before the morning"
- "Let me, let me go!"
- But you're not a swallow!
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