Graham Parker & The Rumour - Endless Night

First performance: no live dates


Coverinfo

1979-12-00 Power Station, New York City, NY

Springsteen drops into the studio (the same one where The River sessions are taking place), jams with Graham Parker & The Rumour and ends up recording support vocals on one or both of the two above-mentioned tracks. It is not certain that Springsteen actually sings or plays on "Paralyzed". 
 
ENDLESS NIGHT / PARALYZED (Rumored) 
 
 
 

Songinfo

' Endless night' is a song taken from the album The Up Escalator , released on April 1980. The Up Escalator was released as the follow-up to Parker's successful 1979 release, The Rumour's keyboardist, Bob Andrews had left the band after the Squeezing Out Sparks tour, being replaced on The Up Escalator by studio musician Nicky Hopkins, the E-Street Band's Danny Federici, and Peter Wood of Quiver. The album was produced by Jimmy Iovine, who had been a popular producer at the time for his work on Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' Damn the Torpedoes and Patti Smith's Easter. The track "Endless Night" features backing vocals from American rock musician Bruce Springsteen, who named Parker as the only musician he would pay to see perform.
 
 
 

Other cover versions

Bruce on the artist

Lyrics

Uh, uh, uh
I had the time but I blew it, I had the power and I knew it
Had the energy, but outgrew it, the identity but saw through it, yeah
I had the walk, but got trampled, had the taste, it was sampled
Had the engine dismantled, had the flame, but no candle

I can't bear to see how it all looks in the light, keep it hidden now
If I could only find a switch that turns on the endless night
That turns on the endless night, that turns on the endless night
That turns on the endless night, ah-ah-ah-uh

If there's a wire, must cross it, if there's a coin, must toss it
If it's dirt can't wash it, it's my head, d-don't cosh it
Ah, there's a door, but they shut it, we all bleed, they cut it
It's so dark when you don't fit, it's a gauntlet you gotta run it, oh baby

I can't bear to see how it all looks in the light, keep it hidden now
If I could only find a switch that turns on the endless night
That turns on the endless night, that turns on the endless night
That turns on the endless night, ah-ah-ah-uh
Turn on the endless night

Turn on the endless, turn on the endless, turn on the endless night

If there's a cross, ah then bear it, if there's a loss, ah then share it
If it's a risk let's dare it, if it's blindness, outstare it, uh

I can't bear to see how it all looks in the light, keep it hidden, baby
If I could only find a switch that turns on the endless night
That turns on the endless night, that turns on the endless night
That turns on the endless night, that turns on the endless night
Let's turn on the endless night, just turn on the endless night
Let's turn on the endless night, and turn on the endless night
Turn on the endless night
Ah turn on the endless night
Yeah, yeah, turn it
Turn on the endless night