Survivor - Children Of The Night Lyrics






Well we rifle through the night,
Like riders on the run now, in the street--
Holding back the blinding light,
'Cause a thousand eyes can be so indiscreet,
And we hide away, love the night away,
And we run between the shadows and the light,

We're children of the night,
Runnin' from the light,
Children of the night,
Of the night, oh yeah.

In the day we pass like strangers,
'Cause we fear the consequences of our love,
And we realize the danger,
Still we choose to take our chances on our love,
And we hide away, love the night away,
And we run between the shadows and the light,

We're children of the night,
Runnin' from the light,
Children of the night,
Of the night, oh yeah.

There's a fine line, such a fine line, a very fine--line,
Between the day and the nighttime,
The wrong and the right time, for makin' sweet love,
Find a place to hide, anyplace to hide, hidin' in the -- darkness,
Feels like the right time, for love in the nighttime,
For makin' sweet love.





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  1. g.... s....

    wish dave had more videos from back in that time he was and still is such a good performer and singer

  2. S.... ....

    with all those great timing and changes and transposition, I'd love to hear a really great power metal band cover this.

  3. A.... J....

    OMG this is the coolest rock song, shame it's so underrated!!!

  4. J.... T....

    December 2019 anyone? ☺️💞

    J.... T....

    Julie T'ar hell yeah!

  5. C.... ....

    Such a gem of an album cover to cover. I just had gripes with how when some of the videos back then that they put together, they couldn't even make the for instance ride/hats in tune with the song for the drums. You'd clearly hear the ride being pinged and the hats are being played visually. We all know they are either perfomance shots taken or actually video specific but even then the edits should have been a tad better. But still a unreal time of music. Such greatness.

  6. R.... F....

    Wow a youtube music video with no "Look at me I'm watching this in the current year" comments!? Who gives a crap when you're watching it. Just enjoy the good music.

  7. M.... A....

    Best Survivor era. Best tones and Dave Bickler..

  8. s.... ....

    Back then when music was music. Because, whatever is on the radio now a days is more like acoustic pollution.

  9. R.... P....

    Survivor is one great rock bands of the 80 so many great songs

  10. c.... w....

    A band ahead of their appreciation for sure. Both vocalist awesome. I just liked Jim myself but respect to both.

  11. I.... S....

    Love Bickler❤️

  12. R.... P....

    Belíssima obra de arte! 🇧🇷🤘🏻

  13. T.... ....

    The Only Survivor 😍

  14. M.... A....

    3:28 I Can’t Get Enough of that voice! Like a drug! Great album “Eye of the Tiger”

  15. �.... �....

    Damn it, I like that black beret !

  16. J.... G....

    That’s what I’m talking about people.lesson to the man of the night..🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈⚡️⚡️⚡️🌈💕🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁

  17. E.... S....

    Nobody talk about The drums? Awesome performance

  18. C.... R....

    i love this song

  19. E.... 9....

    Here Dave was 29, now he's 66 and still singin'

  20. E.... 9....

    What a powerful voice 💪🏻❤

  21. R.... S....

    Acho o Jimmie mais foda

  22. F.... M....

    Love this song!!! Love early Survivor. The lead singer is mega gorgeous. :)

  23. N.... Z....

    Love this band, so talented and sadly, also underrated. Such a large collection of great songs starting from the first 1979 album. What an amazing unique voice coming from such a beautiful singer.

  24. A.... D....

    For making sweet looooove!....epic!!!

  25. W.... ....

    Usual awesome riff. Love the twin guitars. Great harmonies and Bickler's phenomenal vocals blows me away once again. :)

  26. S.... H....

    Great song! Dave Bickler is hotter than hot!!!

  27. D.... P....

    Of you're a rocket then you can relate to the title of the song. And the music they deliver. I am most definitely a child of the night. Keep on rockin rockers.

  28. C.... M....

    I love to see jim peterik was guitarist before he play on the piano.

  29. J.... 7....

    Wow one of their best songs:)

  30. J.... P....

    This entire LP is AMAZING...Mark was incredibly underrated as a drummer...he plays perfect time and groove on this record and Bickler was the perfect vocalist...he was one of the great rock voices...never fully appreciated because of one massive hit song...they never grabbed an image or did gimmicky stuff...not complicated rock music, but the feel was spot on

  31. j.... ....

    RIP ''Stephan Ellis''

    j.... ....

    Is Stephan Ellis dead?

    j.... ....

    https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/stephan-ellis-survivor-bassist-eye-of-the-tiger-obit-801955/

    j.... ....

    Sorry, this is Bob, sent from my wife's account. ;-)

  32. R.... B....

    Great song and well done

  33. A.... C....

    Such an underrated band: still one of my favourites though my very favourite song by them is probably Santa Ana Winds so check that one out if you don't know it

  34. M.... R....

    Wow never knew there was a vid of this classic Survivor song. Such a brilliant band, right up there with Journey and Kansas.

  35. J.... M....

    El mejor.....2019

  36. G.... A....

    2019 alguém?

  37. L.... P....

    I hated that stupid hat. beautiful eyes thou

  38. T.... P....

    Jim Peterik, Frankie Sullivan and Dave Bickler in that BAD-ASS beret! This song and whole entire album ( matter of fact) kicks total ass! Love Survivor, 80' s best decade ever for music.

    T.... P....

    I want his beret....and i'd like to have his eyes too...'cause i'm blonde too, but with brown eyes, and I don't like 😰

  39. k.... g....

    Jim Peterik <3

  40. R.... P....

    Jim peterik is survivor

  41. O.... G....

    This is/was a video? Never knew that until today. Awesome song. Cheers!

  42. M.... D....

    MASTERPIECE !!!!!!!!!! 🤘👏

  43. C.... G....

    Jimi Jamison me gustaba más... aún no supero su ausencia 😞😞😞

  44. J.... A....

    5 thumbs up

  45. T.... S....

    Has that Eddie and the Cruisers feel...such amazing music. A perfect blend of instruments and vocals. Rediscovering this album more than 30 years later....love this...nothing like it today.

  46. Q.... R....

    Best heavy metal n hard rock
    Forever!!!

  47. g.... ....

    Yea this Is The beast music im Mexican your Is The best

  48. j.... ....

    yeah que excelente nunca había visto ni pensé q existía el video de esa canción

  49. J.... R....

    Wish Jamison recorded this one

    J.... R....

    Josh Ricci not me. Dave is the best fit for this track.

  50. M.... c....

    mejor que ojos que tigre sin dudarlo ok posser?

  51. M.... c....

    Porque carajos este rolon no tiene 50 millones de viatas? Es mejor k muchas bandas sobrevaloradas como guns roses o nirvano

  52. �.... ....

    -👍👍👍👍

  53. �.... ....

    I love this song
    Dave is very cool!

  54. v.... s....

    2018 guys???

  55. P.... G....

    did he die?

    P.... G....

    Panda Gaming idk

    P.... G....

    +FiReLoRd GaMiNg What the fuck means idk?

    P.... G....

    ruben echeverria eusa i don't know

    P.... G....

    +FiReLoRd GaMiNg ahhh,ok :)

    P.... G....

    Panda Gaming No. Dave Bickler is still alive and kicking, at age 65. Jimi Jamison is the one that died back in 2014. The real question is will anyone still buy Suvivor albums if Chris Daughtry agrees to be Survivor's next lead singer? That's how it appears to look. Although Daughtry's last three original studio albums sold extremely poorly (not counting his band's Greatest Hits album) and has very a very little fan base, he somehow is still relevant, for whatever reason. Highly doubtful that DB will ever bury the hatchet with Jim Peterik and Frankie Sullivan. Daughtry will ruin Survivor if he gets hired to sing for the band.

  56. S.... ....

    Children of the night... What music they make!

  57. S.... 0....

    Who is this other singer..and why? He has a great voice.. but he kind of gives me the creeps..his face reminds me of the guy in Silence of the Lambs who skinned people and put them in that dungeon well thing..."it puts the lotion.."

  58. J.... ....

    2018 is. Me herw i suxh a retro kid

  59. F.... L....

    Overwhelming

  60. J.... D....

    Survivor rocks! And this song like many others shows how awesome of a band they were!... With Dave...Jim...Frankie...Mark and Steven

  61. I.... ....

    What happend to this band?

  62. M.... c....

    Joder que buena rola cuando lo vi x MTV me gustó mucho

  63. k.... h....

    what a voice marvelous

  64. l.... ....

    Man I loved this band.  But, their image just sucked.  Beret and suspenders?  And in the 80s image was everything.  This is basically their exact stage show.  They got slightly sexier when Jimi slinked out there.

  65. T.... ....

    my favorite song

  66. K.... D....

    By 1982 both Dave Bickler & Paul Stanley had the best rock & roll voices in America!
    Jimi had nothing on Dave! Just sayin'. Dave had a MUCH stronger & a MORE personal
    voice! Paul Stanley was incredible on "Nowhere To Run" on KISS' 1982 "Killers" album!

    K.... D....

    Kriss Delaney I disagree, Steve Perry had the Voice back then... he was nicknamed theVoice by non other than Jon Bon Jovi.

    Journey live.. now that was a concert!

    K.... D....

    @lacuadra70 Jon Bon Jovi ripped off "Ask The Lonely" by Journey to make "I'd Die For You" from "Slippery When Wet." JBJ only wishes he was half as good of a singer as "The Voice." Jovi jumped the shark after "Slippery," which isn't even the band's best album (their '84 S/T debut is way better.)

  67. i.... a....

    2018 1+

  68. S.... ....

    Он умер?!

  69. L.... C....

    My favorite song ever from Survivor

  70. J.... R....

    jimi jamison yes. bickler no.

  71. H.... D....

    Amazing song, I keep loving it after almost 40 years!!!!!!!!!!

  72. e.... g....

    I wonder if they had any journey influence?

  73. P.... P....

    Love it

  74. D.... W....

    Omg his voice is AMAZING!!!!!

  75. H.... ....

    When you gonna post more? It's been like 3 to 4 years since ya posted

  76. W.... S....

    1983 / '84 I used to BLAST this in my Alpine system in the black on black 1972 Chevelle SS through JBL home audio speakers. Wish I still had that (now $60k.) car. And this album still ROCKS! :-)

  77. M.... ....

    porfavor hablen en español

    M.... ....

    te gusta este tipo de musica?

    M.... ....

    +Diego Warthon Survivor es una banda criminalmente infravalorada con grandes canciones:When seconds count,burning bridges,oceans,man against the world,etc etc

  78. h.... i....

    everything level over 9000

  79. C.... F....

    Dave Bickler was so underrated back during this time

    C.... F....

    yes x10k

  80. c.... ....

    Eye of the what?

  81. K.... c....

    não gostei e rock e eu não gosto desse tipo de musica

  82. I.... ....

    these old classic and hard rock are sooo good than what we have today.. the music is shit now. my taste will be in 90s music

    I.... ....

    This was 1982. 90's had good music, especially AIC, STP, Collective Soul, KWS, Brother Cane, Cry of Love, Days of The New, Monster Magnet, Big Wreck, Goo Goo Dolls (that band went downhill after "Dizzy Up The Girl",) Better Than Ezra, Gin Blossoms, Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies, Veruca Salt, Big Head Todd & The Monsters, some Offspring, Dream Theater, TSO, the Donnas and a few others. But the music that came out during the 90's, especially rock, will NEVER hold a candle to ANY music from the 70's or 80's. And the mainstream crap from today that passes off as rock these days is awful and just plain downright pathetic, especially alt/indie garbage like Coldplay, Imagine Dragons, Twenty One Pilots, Panic! At The Disco!, Muse, Black Keys, Arcade Fire, Gorillaz, Paramore, Killers (who have 1 or 2 songs I like, but the others suck ass,) Bullet For My Valentine, My Chemical Romance, Walk The Moon, Arctic Monkeys, A Day To Remember, Jack Johnson, Franz Ferdinand, Alabama Shakes, X-Ambassadors, Awolnation, Cold War Kids, Fitz + The Tantrums, Of Monsters & Men, Grouplove, Lumineers, Ed Sheeran, Hozier, Dropkick Murphys, O.A.R., Vampire Weekend, Gotye and whatever other so-called "top rock acts" that are NOT rock in any way, shape or form. Alt/indie is killing REAL rock 'n' roll music. It needs to die a painful death.

  83. J.... D....

    Good tune!...Ok...so there was a video but it wasnt released as a single? But yet "American Heartbeat" was a single and charted at #17(though Ive never heard it)...and was a far inferior song in comparison...I think Frankie even took the day off as I dont think theres a guitar even on the track...8^)

  84. .... ....

    like bato

  85. G.... L....

    Love this! 💖💕💞

  86. R.... S....

    I love that intro.

  87. S.... T....

    Hello Brother your song Unauthorized I used for I'm sorry you advertising I did copyright
    there is please don't do it :D more English I do not know

  88. M.... K....

    Clockwork orange

  89. M.... C....

    How the hell have I never heard this before?! Great tune!

    M.... C....

    You can hear all the Survivor albums. They're great.

  90. M.... C....

    Jim Peterik looks like my Uncle Bob

  91. x.... ....

    anyone else get reminded of that Scooby doo episode with all the vampires and werewolf's?

  92. P.... ....

    🇧🇷

  93. B.... ....

    Metal ending

  94. J.... N....

    ótima banda...

  95. c.... x....

    Guitar hero sent me