The Night Has A Thousand Eyes

S. Kilbey

Appears On:

• Steve Kilbey - Art, Man + Technology (2009), Track 2

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Narration (unofficial)

the night has a thousand eyes
and vishnu has a thousand names
and there's a thousand ways to die at least
and i walk a thousand miles just to see ya
and i'd sing a thousand songs just to reach ya
but we are watched all around
the walls have ears
the night has eyes
the night aches with memory
the endless night
the eternal night
the long night before the sun first arose
the long dark night of the earth's soul
suddenly it's sunshine
suddenly it's peacocks and moths with eyes all over 'em
suddenly it's the eyes of laura mars
everyone's watching
everyone's seeing
she got a tv eye on me
she got a tv eye
and the night keeps sleeping wide awake
eyes tightly open
eyes that see me even when they're closed
eyes that habit
the limpid eyes of the night
the glowing eyes of some nocturnal spook
the pranks of the somnambulist
the leathery wings of an old bat
the eyes are the window to the soul
the eyes turned inward
we dance along the edge of the night
we appear in the darkening twilight shadows
we wait in the blue cracks of midnight
we freeze in the wee small hours
what are they looking at
who films the screen as it peels back the light
who focuses on the distance
who tells the story of the dumb dawn
who exists outside this friendless blackness
who dabbles in my vision
the night with its reasons and alibis
the night with day on either side
the night full of somber slumber
the night with its rat-a-tat-tat
the night with its aches and window panes
the night with its shore leave sailors
the night with its belt of stars
the night with its fresh mint breath
the night with its thousand tongues
the night with its thousand fingers
the night with its thousand wives
the night with every other night all lined up
the black night
the empty night
the calm night
the rainy night
tonight's the night
the night of light
the night has a thousand me's
a thousand you's
and a thousand eyes