If I could only for a moment If I could look before I leap To test it out before diving To test to see how deep When I'm alone, dressed up in crayon Pulling burdens from the weak For just to look in her direction To bear the cause or bear deceit Oh but the night time is where it breeds Feed on the night time, feelings bereaved Oh but the night time is what I need Thought I'd improve my concentration A little more breathing space But I'm suffocated by the ventilation That circles 'round this hollow place Oh but the night time... It doesn't matter where the hurt is It's only worse when it's dark I see her face and then the burning Tomorrows breathe into a spark If I could learn from past disaster That left my mind a riddled fuse When eyes were turned to the hereafter And life had seemed so far removed Oh but the night time...