“After Tonight” is a duet with Finley Quaye, and a cover of a 1976 track by British reggae band Matumbi, previously also covered by UB40. The original song has a man singing persuasively (and arguably creepily) to a woman about what’s going to happen between them tonight; in this version, it becomes...
[Verse 1: Ava Leigh & Finley Quaye]
Ah yeah
I'm your key to set you free
Set you free
You can come to me anytime for cover
Easy now
Don’t play shy
I won't play shy
Let me try
I'll do more than try
It’s you I really want and not another
Are you being real, baby
[Pre-Chorus: Ava Leigh & Finley Quaye]
Baby, don't you fight, no no
Got your little self uptight, you know
All I wanna tell you is that when I listen to your song it makes my day, day, day, day
[Chorus: Ava Leigh & Finley Quaye]
Baby, after tonight
What's gonna happen after tonight
Baby, after tonight
What's gonna happen after tonight
Baby, after tonight
Oh tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, baby
Baby, after tonight
[Verse 2: Ava Leigh & Finley Quaye]
You're alive
Oh, you know I'm alive
But they could die
And I ain't gon' take a dive
Won’t you swim to me
Swim to me, baby
A little bit closer
I’ll be closer than close
Oh, I can read
Can you read me, baby?
Just what you need
You know what I need
And it's you, oh baby, you I’m looking after
Ooh, tell me, tell me, tell me, baby
Ooh, do it to me, do it to me, baby
[Pre-Chorus: Ava Leigh & Finley Quaye]
Baby, don't you fight, no no
Got your little self uptight, you know
All I wanna tell you is that when I listen to your song it makes my day, day, day, day
[Chorus: Ava Leigh & Finley Quaye]
Baby, after tonight
What's gonna happen after tonight
Baby, after tonight
What's gonna happen after tonight
Baby, after tonight
Oh tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, baby
[Outro: Ava Leigh & Finley Quaye]
We’ll feel alright
I wanna feel alright
After tonight
Ooh, after tonight
I'm so excited baby
Ooh, I'm anticipating
Yeah, excited, baby
A promise is a comfort to a fool
It's cool, you rule, you rule
Oh, it's cool, you rule, it's cool
Yeah yeah yeah
After Tonight was written by Dennis Bovell.