Hot Night

It's a hot night

And I don't feel like sleeping

I got too much commotion

Running 'round my mind

Some kind of second sight

I see the meaning of everything

With the fever of the free and easy

In the summertime

Ain't nobody gonna give it to ya'

You got to steal it

Ain't nobody gonna live it for ya'

So you better feel it now

It's a hot night

I hear the dogs in the distance

I hear the men coming down the street

Pickin' up the trash

It sounds like a fist fight

Like a squalid existence

But they're singing in the dawning day

Like nobody asked

Ain't nobody gonna give it to ya'

You got to steal it

Ain't nobody gonna live it for ya'

So you better feel it now

It's a hot night

And I don't feel like sleeping

Lying next to my lover

And I can hear his dreams

I feel like rising bread

Like a hothouse flower

Like I'm drunk on whiskey sour

Down the street in New Orleans

(Hot night...)

(Hot night...)

(Hot night...)

(Hot night...)

It's a hot night

Lying next to my lover

And there's nowhere tomorrow

That I need to get

So I say not quite

Don't take this night away from me

I don't feel like sleepin'

I said I don't feel like sleepin'

Said I don't feel like sleeping yet