Night Song
Neil Finn
May I have the pleasure
Of your good company
Your carriage is waiting
Gonna take you away with me
Drifting in the dim light
Lift off after midnight
Bursting out above the clouds
For one glimpse of paradise
Been a long time in the darkness
But we travel the road of the sun
Safe passage was granted
By a pair of scorpions
Look what’s going down now
A garden bed of wonder
I came upon the desert king
He was the solitary kind
I owe you thanks now for everything
Remembering you got me so inspired
Felt so lonely when I passed your gate
Round the corner, by then it’s too late
To say thank you
Here it comes
Another night song
Stuck in my brain
Wish there was another way
Of giving you praise
Hollywood streets
So full of surprises
Like mayhem made for pleasure
My mother said she’d love me
No matter what the crime
There’s a rock you crawl under
When you are down
You won’t know when I’m coming
Cos’ you won’t hear a sound
I’m just trying to write a love song
Here it comes, a middle of the night song
Stuck in my brain
Wish there was another way
Of finding that vein
Here it comes, another night song
For all of my days
I could never get away from nothing
For the love of god
Killing you with kindness
All of my days
I could never get away from nothing
Song appears on:
Crowded House - Gravity Stairs (2024 album)
“‘Night Song’ is actually quite an unusual song in that it slips between time signatures and things. But the whole thing came from a jam I had on a Prophet synthesizer. I don’t know how to play synthesizer, but I found a sound on it that was really fun. It had overtones and was suggestive of different chords, and I just jammed over it for a half hour and actually made a 20-minute piece of music from it by adding guitars and piano before I even tried to make it into a song. And that delivered what is the closing track on the record. If you use headphones you’ll hear in the background a woozy, curly little synthesizer sound that was the original impetus for the song.”
“I did that one off to the side before we got around to Crowded House sessions. Elroy played drums on it early on. I made a lot of it up and put it together. It needed to find a place. I was really proud of it. It wasn’t conceived as a band track with Crowded House, but it fits the album really nicely. ”