Lebanese Night Songtext
von Chris de Burgh

It was late in a Lebanese restaurant

In the heat of a Lebanese night

There was dancing, people were singing

She came in from the garden outside
In her eyes I saw the stars
And I felt something happen in my heart

Then I knew I was going to meet her

In the heat of a Lebanese night
And the girl inside the woman
Who came over to sit by my side
And when she smiled the whole world stopped
It was then I heard the echoes of a child

And did you go to your bed with a sweet lullaby
And the sound of the guns in the night?
And did you dance in the fields
Did you run for your life
From the hell that came down from the sky?


On a Lebanese night, on a Lebanese night
We went down to the edge of the water
By the light of a Lebanese dawn
And she told me all the stories of her beautiful land in the war
Her tears fell down, the sun came up

And I saw again the young girl in her eyes
And did you go to your bed with a sweet lullaby
And the sound of the guns in the night?
And did you dance in the fields
Did you run for your life
From the hell that came down from the sky?

On a Lebanese night, on a Lebanese night
In Lebanese
All of my life, all I have known
Only a place where peace cannot go


All over the world, the gift from before
Nothing is left for the children of war
And did you go to your bed with a sweet lullaby
And the sound of the guns in the night?
And did you dance in the fields
Did you run for your life
From the hell that came down from the sky?
On a Lebanese night, on a Lebanese night
On a Lebanese night, on a Lebanese night
I will be waiting, in the Lebanon