Story Behind The Song

Boy/ Girl tries to tempt lover by promising safety in the city night.

Song Description

Soft jazzy/ soul number with laid back verse and strong bridge. The mid song instrumental is integral to the feel and though the lyrics may be a bit sappy the feel is almost rappy.

Lyrics

Safe in Darkness

Verse1
In the dark, shark pathways of the night where the slick knife flickers try to hide
To steal your purse , your love, your mind where the morphia money cuts unkind
When you cry out in the night at the strange sounds so full of fright
And the TV leaves you all alone
Just scream and deep inside my dream
The city has no hold, all concretes lose control
and you?ll be safe in darkness

Verse 2
In the headlights playing on the wall, illusion cops and robbers call
The sirens will drag you to that isle far from the madhouse muggers style
And when you cry out in the night and the dogs bark their rabid bite
and the full moon forecloses its loan
Just scream and deep inside my dream
The city has no hold, all concretes lose control
and you?ll be safe in darkness

Verse 3
If I sang you a song so out of rhyme with words that don?t really fit these times
Of love and honesty and truth you?d just laugh and the music couldn?t soothe.
But when loving knows no bound I can drive out all those sounds
and speak with voices hate can?t hear.
But that?s dreams, just juke -box haunted schemes
The city has no hold, all concretes lose control
and you?ll be safe in darkness.

Coda
In darkness, safe in darkness

© Words and Music by A.J.Ingram