Look out across the fields, see me returning
  Smoke is in your eye, you draw a smile
  From the fireplace where my letters to you are burning
  You've had time to think about it for a while.
    Well, I've walked two hundred miles, look me over
  It's the end of the chase and the moon is high
  It wont matter who loves who
  You'll love me or I'll love you
  When the night comes falling
  When the night comes falling
  When the night comes falling from the sky.
    I can see through your walls and I know you're hurting
  Sorrow covers you up like a cape
  Only yesterday I know that you've been flirting
  With disaster you somehow managed to escape.
    I can't provide for you no easy answers
  Who are you that I should have to lie ?
  You'll know all about it, love
  It'll fit you like a glove
  When the night comes falling
  When the night comes falling
  When the night comes falling from the sky.
    I can hear your trembling heart beat like a river
  You must have been protecting someone last time I called
  I never asked you for nothing that you couldn't deliver
  I've never asked you to set yourself up for a fall.
    I saw thousands who could have overcome the darkness
  For the love of a lousy buck, I've watched them die
  Stick around, baby, we're not through
  Don't look for me, I'll see you
  When the night comes falling
  When the night comes falling
  When the night comes falling from the sky.
    In your teardrops, I can see my own reflection
  It was on the northern border of Texas where I crossed the line
  I don't want to be a fool starving for affection
  I don't want to drown in someone else's wine.
  For all eternity I think I will remember
  That icy wind that's howling in your eye
  You will seek me and you'll find me
  In the wasteland of your mind
  When the night comes falling
  When the night comes falling
  When the night comes falling from the sky.
    Well, I sent you my feelings in a letter
  When you were gambling for support
  This time tomorrow I'll know you better
  When my memory is not so short.
    This time I'm asking for freedom
  Freedom from a world which you deny
  And you'll give it to me now
  I'll take it anyhow
  When the night comes falling
  When the night comes falling
  When the night comes falling from the sky.