On a night like this
You look up at your lover
It's like you're in some old cartoon

Then you detect
The scent of faded roses
Up in the sky

There's that cruel countermoon
Could that be murder you see in her eyes
You try a long and desperate kiss

You can't escape it
That beam is sure to find you


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On a night like this
The story is told

How the women get restless
And the men grow cold
Gotham shudders

There's a chill in the air
There's a countermoon
Lovers all beware


Hand in hand
You walk along the river

You stop to clutch and caress
A countermoonbeam
Comes sweeping off the water

She says "You're not my Jackie.
My Jackie was the best."
Spitewaves are threatening

The seaside hotels
It's nasty weather for July
Last night you loved her

Tonight you wonder why

Chorus


At every pay phone
There's somebody cryin'

All the streets are slick with tears
When you see that blue ray
There's a heartquake on the way


Chorus