The offices are emptying their pale-faced wards into the street,
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Flickering their strip-light eyes, shivering they readjust their lives
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From the air-conditioned heat.
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The humdrum and mundane
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Is nearly driving them insane.
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But you get hooked so quick to anything
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Even your chains,
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You're crouching in your corner 'til they open up your cage.
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Chorus:
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And when the night comes
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It'll help you disappear
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And when the night comes
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Forget about the day that brought you here.
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Frankie takes the train and makes it home in time to catch the evening news,
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Opening a can of beans he learns the world has turned without much help from him.
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Hey Frank, why not get drunk tonight?
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Hey Frank, I think it'll be alright,
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You'll be too far gone to notice when the neighbors start complaining,
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But they're used to it by now, every day's the same.
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(repeat chorus)
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And when the night comes,
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He might get on the phone,
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She's a stuck-up bitch,
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But she lives on her own,
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And he heard her talking dirty to the girls the other day,
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And she knew that he had heard her and she looked "as if to say"
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And then later up in marketing while going through the files,
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She bent a little too far down, then turned around and smiled.
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He got her number,
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He got the phone,
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He dialed the number,
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He heard the tone.
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He said "Tonight's the night that I've been waiting for,
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Oh I know you've seen me worship you from afar,
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And I might tell you that I love you and I will but just for
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Tonight, one night, alright tonight."
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In his three piece cunning camouflage nobody
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can guess what Frankie's thinking,
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Last night she said "I don't know if I'm drowning
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Maybey it's because I'm sinking."
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He said "It'll be okay
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I'll get outta here one day"
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And she said "Frankie, you're no different from any of the rest,
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They've nailed you to that table and chained you to your desk."
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But when the night comes....
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(repeat chorus)
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When The Night Comes
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