Pulp Songs - They Suffocate At Night Lyrics

Pulp - They Suffocate At Night

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Album: Freaks
Released: 1987

They Suffocate At Night Lyrics

His body loved her
His mind was set on other things
Keep your face out of sight
And your thoughts to yourself
And this went on for several nights
Festering in silence, growing in the dark

And this they saw as love
Love
So sad to see
They Suffocate At Night
Oh this they saw as love
Love
So sad to see
To see it slowly die

She met his wishes
He found that he had changed his mind
Now the fit is too tight
And the bedroom too warm
The days are filled with things to do
Night-time lies so hollow and memories betray

Oh memories of love
Love
So sad to see
They suffocate at night
Those memories of love
Love
So sad to see
To see it slowly die

Two years have passed
Two years of emptiness inside
And the grey skies above
Just show how far I went wrong
I wonder if she's living there
The way that I recall
The way I'll always think of you
And when I think of you

I think of love
Love
So sad to see
They suffocate at night
You know I think of love
Love
So sad to see
To see it slowly die

I wrote you a letter
I threw it away
I wrote you a letter
I threw it away
I need her
I know I don't need her
I need her
Oh
Oh-oh

Writer/s: JARVIS COCKER, RUSSELL SENIOR, PETER MANSELL, CANDIDA DOYLE
Publisher: CONEXION MEDIA GROUP, INC.
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This was the first single from Pulp's largely unsuccessful second album Freaks, released in 1987 during an unhappy relationship with Fire Records. By this point the core of the band that would achieve 1990s fame - Cocker, guitarist Russell Senior and keyboardist Candida Doyle - were in place, with only the rhythm section of bassist Steve MacKay and drummer Nick Banks to come.

The band were not in a happy place at all during Freaks, as Cocker explained in a 1994 Record Mirror interview. Said Cocker: "In June '86, we started the Freaks album. It was recorded for £600 - in one week. The producer disowned it: he didn't want his name on it! This was the low point, emotionally, of my life. It's such a depressing album. There's some decent songs but they're badly done. 'I Want You' is good, but there's a better version as a demo. The violin's miles out of tune - it's supposed to be a big ballad. 'Don't You Know' came out on a Record Mirror compilation 'Fruit Cakes And Furry Collars' - it's the same version.

It was called 'Freaks' because I'd been out of school four years and lived this marginal life with no success. I was living in a factory building, a drop in center for all the freaks and misfits of Sheffield. We'd been doing something worthwhile and original and yet nobody seemed interested. This was the dark days of the mid-'80s: 'we're heading for a boom time, let's be happy.'

'Aye aye aye aye moosey' was in the charts. We were nowhere near the mainstream. Also, I was in the middle of the first proper relationship I'd had. I'd gone into this terrible depression of finding out what relationships were really like, but not knowing how to deal with it - you go out with somebody for six months and spend another eighteen trying to split up. All in all, I was not a happy person."

Proof of how unhappy things had got was when a music video was attempted to be recorded for "They Suffocate At Night" - the band split up on set! Cocker noted in the same Record Mirror interview: "Russell was extremely disciplinarian, I was quite puritanical, but Pete (Mansell, bass) and Mag (Magnus Doyle, drums) just messed around. It got to a head and everybody had a fight. It wasn't worth the aggro anymore."

It would be after this split that the band would reform with the classic 1990s lineup, after a few trials with other members.