While the City Sleeps

Stealing down an alley in the cold dark night I see a nalo in the rain round street light I stop and look and listen to the sound As the raindrops penetrates the silence all around Alone I gaze into the glistening street A distant thuder echoing my heart beat Urging me on to a secret goal Away from this lights From this lamp on a pole So I turn to sleep away into the rain Drifting like a spirit through the shadows in the lane Clutching the tools of my trade in my hand An old boxe of matches and a gasoline can Darkness envelops the scene like a shroud A veil of emptiness hang from the clouds Filling up the cracks in the desolate place Cradled by the night in an icy embrace Moving through the town like a ghost in the rain A dim reflection in a dark windowpane Blackness bockons from every side Creeping all around all round like an incoming tide A broken window in an empty house I slip inside and begin to douse The whole place with the fuel that will feed the fire And push back the night, taking me higher On out of the darkness in a deathly roar The match in my hand is the key to the door A single turn of the wrist will suffice To open up a passage to paradise I pause I think about the past and the gloom The smell of gasolijne permeats the room Every one has a little secrets he keeps I like the fires while the city sleeps The match makes a graceful are to the floor And tymes stands still when I turn for the door Whic explodes in a fire ball and throws me to the street I hit the ground with the flames at my feet Reaching for the night which recoils in the fire The rain drops hiss like a devilish choir Dying in the flames with a terrible sound Calling all the names of the sleepers all-around But then in the arms of the night they lay Therir dreams sprout wings and fly away Out of their houses in a gathering flock Swarming over head as hurry down the block I make my escape with the greatest of ease And safe in the darkness drop to my knees At a lightless the window my hand on the latch I reach down my pocket And pull out a match...