| Song | Talking Back To The Night |
| Artist | Joe Cocker |
| Album | The Essential Joe Cocker |
| 作词 : Jennings, Winwood | |
| High above the heat of a summer New York street | |
| An out-of-work musician plays a solo saxophone | |
| He's a preacher and a teacher | |
| And he stands up all alone | |
| Stranded in the dark of a vision in the park | |
| A poet in his madness tries to find another line | |
| And he's losing and he's using | |
| And he says he's doing fine | |
| And they look from such a height | |
| That somehow it's all right | |
| They're talking back to the night | |
| It's all that they can do | |
| Talking back to the night | |
| It's how they make it through | |
| If you listen you can hear them | |
| Their voices draw you near them | |
| They're talking back to the night for you | |
| Something seems to take every dime the man can make | |
| His dream is getting smaller and he wonders where to turn | |
| And he's trying hard to make it | |
| And he's trying not to burn | |
| Woman never minds, pulls the shade and draws the blinds | |
| She takes him in the darkness where the loneliest can feed | |
| She gives him all she has to | |
| And it's no more than he needs |
| zuò cí : Jennings, Winwood | |
| High above the heat of a summer New York street | |
| An outofwork musician plays a solo saxophone | |
| He' s a preacher and a teacher | |
| And he stands up all alone | |
| Stranded in the dark of a vision in the park | |
| A poet in his madness tries to find another line | |
| And he' s losing and he' s using | |
| And he says he' s doing fine | |
| And they look from such a height | |
| That somehow it' s all right | |
| They' re talking back to the night | |
| It' s all that they can do | |
| Talking back to the night | |
| It' s how they make it through | |
| If you listen you can hear them | |
| Their voices draw you near them | |
| They' re talking back to the night for you | |
| Something seems to take every dime the man can make | |
| His dream is getting smaller and he wonders where to turn | |
| And he' s trying hard to make it | |
| And he' s trying not to burn | |
| Woman never minds, pulls the shade and draws the blinds | |
| She takes him in the darkness where the loneliest can feed | |
| She gives him all she has to | |
| And it' s no more than he needs |