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The Silence of the Night
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Hopefully intelligent, upbeat, pop rock - plus multiple other genres and rabbit holes I enter
The band is ME - plus any collaborators I can convince to come along for the ride. I love the process of song writing and production - I hope some others get some enjoyments - or chuckles out of these tunes.
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Genre
Pop • Pop Rock
Charts
Peak #439
Peak in subgenre #81
Author
Ron Tintner
Rights
2007
Uploaded
November 08, 2007
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MP3 3.5 MB • 128 kbps • 3:48
Story behind the song
Strange things happen on hot nights in small towns
Lyrics
THE SILENCE OF THE NIGHT Ron Tintner © 2007 Awake in my motel about 2 AM On the 14th of July In the silence of a dead calm Mississippi night (I see a) A silver Mercedes drives by They turn the corner onto 14th Street Drive out of my sight Next thing I know I hear a shot ring out And break the silence of the night Oo oo oo oo ooh The silence of the night Oo oo oo oo ooh The silence of the night I hear the engine roar and the tires screech Then nothing more until the sirens scream And the knock on my door at 6:00 AM Means something’s awfully wrong And a gold badge detective with a crumpled gray coat Gives me a sideways glance that almost makes me choke He hems and haws and beats around the bush But when he gets to the point, there’s a deafening hush … Like the silence of the night --- CHORUS No one’s talking But a but some crazy old coot Who says she heard a woman screaming my name Then he could sort of sorta make out… A scar-faced man run into the night Like a bat outta hell And maybe the man looked exactly like me As close as she could tell Well the crumpled-coat detective don’t like loose ends Or cases open more than a week So senile babble sounds good enough to him To lock away a stranger like me Oo oo oo oo ooh The silence of the night Oo oo oo oo ooh The silence of the night So if you’re in a strange town around 2 AM And something’s not right Don’t be lulled by the innocent calm Or the silence of the night --- CHORUS Out
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