Sam Himself - Nothing Like the Night (live with Symphony Orchestra Basel)

Live performance by Sam Himself, Sinfonieorchester Basel. Words and music by Sam Himself. Arranged for orchestra by Mark Baechle. Conducted by Michael Künstle. Drums by Philipp Gut. Recorded by Amadis Brugnoni and Nils Koechlin at Kaserne Basel, Switzerland, courtesy of BScene Festival 2022. Engineered by Benjamin Gut. Picture and edit by Stefan Tschumi. Outfit by YVY (yvy.ch) Special thanks to BScene Basel & Sinfonieorchester Basel. All rights (c)(p) Sam Himself 2022 samhimself.com Sam Himself - "Nothing Like the Night" (lyrics) Someone’s words tumbleweed through the desert in your skull Above the blinds the ceiling’s stained by the pasty light of dawn  Once again the big black bird came home to roost on this scarecrow A bell’s ringing, time for church, you can’t get up you can’t make the door   Cause you can’t take it far enough  Find a cure or taste the blood  It’s something like the night that lies that way  But you can’t break if you don’t stop   Too fast to crash, too high to drop  There’s just nothing like the night to take you there   Take you down   A stranger’s face, twisted in knots, pale and shiny like a doll Looks back at you through the glass of a crazed one-way window  With flaring eyes and grating jaws that don’t know what they’re hungry for  Blue blades for veins to drain what’s left like dirty water from a tub   You can’t take it far enough  Find the cure or taste the blood  It’s something like the night that lies that way  But you can’t break if you don’t stop   Too fast to crash, too high to drop  There’s just nothing like the night to take you there   So here’s to the brink   One more time with feeling   This cage of broken limbs  If you wanna know it’s yours make it hurt   If you wanna know it’s yours make it hurt