Ain't Even Done With The Night

Album: Nothin' Matters And What If It Did (1980)
Charted: 17
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  • Well our hearts beat like thunder
    I don't know why they don't explode
    You got your hands in my back pockets
    And Sam Cooke's singin' on the radio
    You say that I'm the boy who can make it all come true
    Well I'm tellin' ya that I don't know if I know what to do

    You say that's all right, hold tight
    Well I don't even know if I'm doin' this right
    Well all right, hold tight
    We can stay out all day or we can run around all night
    Well all night, all night
    Well it's time to go home
    And I ain't even done with the night

    Well I don't know no good come-ons
    And I don't know no cool lines
    I feel the heat of your frustration
    I know it's burnin you up deep down inside
    You say that I'm the boy who can make it all come true
    Well I'm tellin ya that I don't know if I know what to do

    You say that's all right, hold tight
    Well I don't even know if I'm doin' this right
    Well all right, hold tight
    We can stay out all day or we can run around all night
    Well all night, all night
    Well it's time to go home
    And I ain't even done with the night Writer/s: JOHN MELLENCAMP
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Comments: 5

  • Nickhead from IowaI am not much of a Mellencamp fan. I heard a snippet of a podcast where he said for his upcoming tour he was going to play some things he hadn't done for a while. So I was trying to find a serlist to see if this song was one of them. While doing so I ran across an interview where he denigrate it, saying it kind of a "pop single". But to me, it is about his only song that conveys any sort of emotion that I can identify with.
  • Loonytunes from Pleasant Ridge, Ohio'i aint even done with the nite' is such a nice ditty it would make me cry but bikers dont cry i have a reputation.
  • Johnny Straws from Weston, MeI perform this song with my band and it is one of the most requested covers we do by the ladies.

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  • AnonymousI wondered if he wrote it, and now I love it even more.
  • Tony Velizio from SeattleBrilliant songwriting. Pops and hits the head and heart.
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