In a cold hard world when you're out on your own



Oh

there's a cruel harsh word you'll get to know.

No one understands what it's like in misery



All the great demands your love has made on me

In the heat

in the heat of the night.

In the heat

in the heat of the night.



As their faces turn everywhere that you go



It's the eyes that burn right through to your sole.

Feel the rhythm of the street



A distant scream from who knows where -