Well, I'm driving down Kingsley

Figuring I'll get a drink

I turn the radio way up loud

So I don't have to think

And I take her to the floor

Looking for a moment when the world seems right

And I go tearing into the guts

Of something in the night



And I picked this chick up hitchhiking

She just hung her head out the window and she screamed

Said she was looking for someplace to go

To die or be redeemed

Well you can ride this road 'til dawn

Without another human being in sight

Baby, everybody's gone looking

For something in the night



She said she was born with nothing

Said she was better -- better off that way

As soon as you get something

Somebody comes along and they try to take it away

She wants me to push my old Chevy

'Cause together we could make it clean

Make it fast, we could make an honest stand

And surrender to the justice

Of something in the night



'Cause tonight nothing is forgotten or forgiven

When it's your last time around

And I got stuff runnin' round my head

I can't live with or live down

And on the inside all the big boys and the players

They sit around the tables and mumble about some vague wrong and right

While outside kids like us rumble, babe

Over something in the night



And tonight me and that little girl are going to love each other

'Til we got nothing left to show

We're going to drive my old car

As hard and fast as she will go

For all the ones caught laughing in the face of the devil

Who went when the moment was right

Somewhere we'll surrender to the beauty

Of something in the night



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