Searchlight

Album: Centerfield (1985)
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  • Oh the midnight, need a searchlight
    Oh the midnight, need a searchlight

    I walk along the rocky shore
    The place I lost myself
    I search the water, look in the sky
    I hear the cries for help
    I trace my footsteps down to the sea
    But then the path disappears
    Here in the darkness, I'm runnin' blind
    Been stumblin' for all of these years

    Oh the midnight, need a searchlight
    Oh the midnight, need a searchlight

    What was the demon that made me run
    Can I ever hope to understand?
    I hear my voice, echoes on the wind
    I try to reach out with my hand
    Without a light, I might be here forever
    Lost for all eternity
    There in the darkness
    Slippin' through my fingers
    The face that smiles back at me

    Oh the midnight, need a searchlight
    Oh the midnight, need a searchlight
    Oh the midnight, need a searchlight
    Oh the midnight, need a searchlight
    Oh the midnight, need a searchlight
    Oh the midnight, need a searchlight Writer/s: JOHN FOGERTY
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Comments: 2

  • Linda Ours from Gloucester, VaThis is a favorite of mine! Totally agree with Mr. Mitchell from Tennessee. :) I'm pretty sure that the line before the last chorus is incorrect in this rendering, though. I have the album with the printed lyrics; unfortunately, it's not at hand where I can check this, but I distinctly remember seeing (and hearing) the line as "The face that smiles back is me" (not "at me"). It's an important difference: "is me" makes it really spooky . . . "at me" not nearly as much. (The copy I have is from the early months of the release, though, before "Zanz Kant Danz" was replaced as "Vanz Kant Danz." I suppose it's possible that this line in "Searchlight" might have been tweaked for subsequent pressings too?)
  • Matthew Mitchell from Memphis, TnOne of his best songs. I listened to it over and over. A rock and roll classic.
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