William J. Hall, Lyrics 1980, Going Out

Going Out / Night Time Blue William J. Hall - December 18, 1980 and December 1982
	1	Someone talking
	2	Talking out loud
	3	They say the way that I see it
	4	You live to close to the crown
	5	But there is nowhere to run
	6	Nowhere else to hide
	7	So when the sun goes down
	8	I've got to get outside
	9	I've got to get away
	10	Into the carnival lights
	11	I've got to get out and away
	12	Maybe it ain't right
	13	But I'm going out tonight
	14	Somebody
	15	Make some remark
	16	They say the way that I see it
	17	You best stay in after dark
	18	But there is no more direction
	19	Up in the day
	20	So when the sun goes down
	21	And I go out to play
	22	I play the lone wolf
	23	I play the cat-paw dragon
	24	Play it for myself
	25	I play for keeps in the long run
	26	When I get away
	27	Into the carnival lights
	28	I've got to get out and away
	29	Maybe it ain't right
	30	But I'm going out tonight
	31	Say it again
	32	Going out tonight
	33	Again and again
	34	Going out tonight
	35	Shining bright
	36	Going out - I'll take my chances
	37	My chances going out
	38	Tonight
	39	Nighttime blue
	40	Charcoal grey
	41	Streetlights strip of shadows on
	42	Stairs in that alley we always walk. We
	43	Cross the road down from the
	44	Market street firehouse and
	45	Off along the slate and cement we pass like
	46	Shadows on the wind.
	47	Telephone switches hum,
	48	Buried steam-pipes hiss.
	49	Disco jukebox bass and drum...
	50	Full-lit trysting lovers kiss in the
	51	Parking lot - and the
	52	Kids out on the stoop... smoking
	53	Cigarettes - looking for sport
	54	Know what night is for: they gather
	55	Times for later reminiscences...
	56	Hot - on the town
	57	School's out and them boys be crazy
	58	Jammin' the box way past midnight.
	59	Girls in tight dresses sporting
	60	High-heels and too much lipstick...
	61	Snapping fingers to the sweet
	62	Lower chakra - red
	63	Fire escape beat
	64	Echo into the distance.
	65	Wind shifts
	66	Colors fade
	67	Mist on our faces - the
	68	Moment's soft parade of
	69	Dream stirs.
	70	Stars shine down from an endless sea
	71	Above the trees and rooftops.
	72	Musky moonlit fog shrouds
	73	An open field. There are
	74	Candy wrappers in the mud and
	75	Flowers in the gutter.
	76	Memory sweeps back - outside
	77	Coming inside - breath of Udana -
	78	Our first kiss - it was dark. We
	79	Turned uphill from the phone booth and I
	80	Walked you to the corner. It
	81	Began to snow. I held your
	82	Hand. You leaned over and
	83	Touched me.
	84	Hearts fill
	85	And paint detail
	86	Into vision - life into
	87	Solitude - silence.
	88	I am the warrior...
	89	I am the priestess
	90	I am the young brave, medicine man
	91	Captain, thief
	92	I am the boy who took a little bit - you
	93	Remember - from the Giant's Dance and
	94	Fashioned it into a ball of light to
	95	Please his pretty sister and,
	96	After all this time, came
	97	Back through emptiness and blindness to
	98	Return it somehow
	99	You laugh,
	100	You cry - you
	101	Take my arm and walk again the back
	102	Streets the sleeping windows and say, "Which
	103	"Houses will you buy tonight, Billy,
	104	"Tell me again, which
	105	"Houses will you buy?"
	106	I smile: It's all
	107	Right, you know,
	108	It's all
	109	Right: I
	110	Want to live forever, but I'm
	111	Not afraid to die...
	112	And later on, as we
	113	Turn back away, the
	114	Witching hours close like velvet
	115	Curtains behind us in the gentle dark - where the
	116	Sirens scream and
	117	Distant music scatters on
	118	Cobblestone sight - in the
	119	Clear, clean, honest,
	120	Phantom night.
	1221	Someone talking
	122	I hear what they say
	123	They say the way that I see it
	124	You better live for today
	125	But there is nothing worth doing better in daylight
	126	So when the sun goes down
	127	I live it up for tonight
	128	I do the mad dog
	129	Do the cloak and dagger
	130	From the London fog
	131	To the New York Towers
	132	I've got the lords of light
	133	I've got the angels of darkness
	134	Give me second sight
	135	Mixed around in this blindness
	136	When I get away
	137	Into the carnival lights
	138	I've got to get out and away
	139	Maybe it ain't right
	140	But I'm going out tonight
	141	Say it again
	142	Going out tonight
	143	Again and again and again
	144	Going out my friend
	145	It's the living end
	146	The living end
Going Out © William J. Hall 1980 all rights reserved ASCAP Nighttime Blue © William J. Hall 1982 all rights reserved ASCAP