Night and Day - Helen Merrill

Like the beat beat

Beat of the tom tom

When the jungle shadows fall

Like the tick tick

Tock of the stately clock

As it stands against the wall

Like the drip

Drip drip of the rain drops

When the summer showers through

So a voice within me keeps repeating

You you you

Night and day you are the one

Only you beneath the moon or under the sun

Whether near to me or far

It's no matter darling

Where you are

I think of you

Night and day

Day and night

Why is it so that this longing for you

Follows where ever I go

In the roaring traffic's boom

In the silence of my lonely room

I think of you

Night and day day and night

Under the hide of me

There's an oh such a hungry yearning

Burning inside of me

And this torment won't be through

Till you let me spend my life

Making love to you

Day and night

Night and day

Night and day

Under the hide of me

There's an oh such a hungry yearning

Burning inside of me

And this torment won't be through

Till you let me spend my life

Making love to you

Day and night

Night and day

Day and night

Night and day

Day and night

Night and day