“The Night Safari” is the third and final single from Patrick Wolf’s comeback EP The Night Safari, and was released on April 11, three days before the EP’s official release. Patrick Wolf described the song in an Instagram post as
A song of departure and a reply to the lovers of Lupercalia, that “al...
[Verse 1]
Pardon me
For disturbing your dreaming
Did not want you to hear me crying
Or watch me reeling and receding
Into this old mania of mine
[Chorus]
Don't you lose sleep
Pay no mind to me
Unravelling
[Verse 2]
Forgive me
I have not been myself
For such a fuckawful time
I just keep my head down
Wait for the planets
To shift around
And procrastinate
My pain into doubt
[Pre-Chorus]
Don't you lose sleep
Pay no mind to me
Unravelling
[Chorus]
All the love in this world
Not enough to hold
Me back from
The night safari now
River so black
Turning blue
Show me the way
Back to you
And the night safari out
[Verse 3]
Excuse me
While I shift shape
The ocelot
Slips the bowline knot
But soon falls to prey
As a boy I worshipеd the thunder
Now it's just a sky under
I wait for to fall
No why only whеn
[Pre-Chorus]
Don't you lose sleep
Pay no mind to me
Unravelling
[Chorus]
All the love in this world
Not enough to hold
Me back from
The night safari now
River so black
Turning blue
Show me the way
Back to you
And the night safari out
[Bridge]
When
All the love
Isn't enough
[Chorus]
River so black
Turning blue
Show me the way
Back to you
And the night safari out
[Outro]
Don't you lose sleep
Pay no mind to me
Unravelling
The Night Safari was written by Patrick Wolf.
The Night Safari was produced by Patrick Wolf.
Patrick Wolf released The Night Safari on Tue Apr 11 2023.
‘The Night Safari’ is a phrase I gave those nights staring at the ceiling, unable to sleep and descending into a wilderness of dead ends and anxieties. The river in the song is a river that runs throughout the record.
— Via Dork