All Night Long

You come in here like a fish on a line
You give her a kiss and then you give her a sign
You say that you've been true, you'd see her through
What's old is new and you love her too

But she turns her back and she looks to the wall
She takes your hand so that she will not fall
She says "It's been too long, there's something wrong
I think the feeling's gone, something's come along"


Chorus
And the moon shines at night and in the daytime it hides
And then she goes home to bed and on her pillow she cries
And nobody knows that's what she does all night long


And the glamour school dresses and the glamour school hair
Make no impression on him because he does not care
He wants her to be free, to be able to see
To get off of her knees, not to act but to be

And like (...) a man travels around
To visit his children from town to town
Reflects the painful age and the awkward stage
Now he's in a cage made of his own rage

Chorus

You are a mystery to me for you are all that you claim to be
And you don't let them catch you in their ruse

She cries at night when no one can know
'Cause the journey is longer in the rain and the snow
She can't understand how this can be the man
How the touch of his hand can give her power to stand

But when her friends ask about the state of her heart
She can't bring herself to admit he's a part
Of her life every day, though in a letter she'll say
That it's going okay, except she must go away

She watches his hands and she watches his eyes
And then she goes home to bed and on her pillow she cries
And nobody knows that's what she does all night long

Nerissa Nields © 1989 Peter Quince Productions, ASCAP

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