The night doesn´t like it. Looks just like your face on the moon, to me. And I won´t let you do What you want to do.
It´s funny how, even now, You´re laughing.
I won´t let you do it.
If you go, I´ll let the law know, And they´ll head you off when you touch the ground. Ooh, please, don´t go through with this. I don´t like the sound of it.
It´s funny how, even now, You´re miles away.
I won´t let you do it. I won´t let you do it. I won´t let you go through with it.
"Meet them over at Dover. I´ll just pilot the motor, Take them over the water
"With a hired plane, And no names mentioned. Tonight´s the night of the flight. Before you know, I´ll be over the water
"Like a swallow. There´s no risk. I´ll whisk them up in no moonlight. And though pigs can fly, They´ll never find us Posing as the night, And I´m home before the morning."
In Malta, catch a swallow, For all of the guilty--to set them free. Wings fill the window, And they beat and bleed.
They hold the sky on the other side Of BORDERlines.
"Meet them over at Dover. I´ll just pilot the motor, Take them over the water, Like a swallow flying to Malta,
"With a hired plane, And no names mentioned. Tonight´s the night of the flight. Before you know, I´ll be over the water
Like a swallow.
"There´s no risk. I´ll whisk them up in no moonlight. And though pigs can fly, They´ll never find us Posing as the night, And I´m home before the morning.
"Give me a break! Ooh, let me try! Give me something to show For my miserable life! Give me something to take! Would you break even my wings, Just like a swallow?
"Let me--let me go
With a hired plane, And no names mentioned. Tonight´s the night of the flight. Before you know, I´ll be over the water Like a swallow.
("Let me--let me go!") "There´s no risk. I´ll whisk them up in no moonlight. And though pigs can fly, They´ll never find us Posing as the night, And I´m home before the morning.
("Let me--let me go!") "With a hired plane, And no names mentioned.
Tonight´s the night of the flight. Before you know, I´ll be over the water Like a swallow.
("Let me--let me go!") "There´s no risk. I´ll whisk them up in no moonlight. And though pigs can fly, They´ll never find us Posing as the night, And I´m home before the morning--"