The Wrong Side of Night

[Verse 1] The lawn went silver after dark The streetlights learned to blink Something small moved through the hedge Too fast to name or think The television lost its face The kitchen clock ran slow And every shadow in the room Leaned somewhere it shouldn't go [Chorus] Something came down Without a sound Something stayed behind Little holes in ordinary things Little teeth inside the night [Verse 2] By morning all the birds were gone But feathers filled the street A blackened trail across the porch Stopped neatly at our feet Nobody saw a thing arrive Nobody heard it leave But something underneath the house Has started learning how to breathe [Bridge] The stars look wrong tonight Too close Too many And something in the garden Is laughing like a radio [Final Chorus] Something came down Without a sound Something stayed behind The world still looks exactly right Until you look twice