Live performance by Sam Himself, Sinfonieorchester Basel.
Words and music by Sam Himself.
Arranged for orchestra by Mark Baechle. Conducted by Michael Künstle. Drums by Philipp Gut.
Recorded by Amadis Brugnoni and Nils Koechlin at Kaserne Basel, Switzerland, courtesy of BScene Festival 2022.
Engineered by Benjamin Gut. Picture and edit by Stefan Tschumi.
Outfit by YVY (yvy.ch)
Special thanks to BScene Basel & Sinfonieorchester Basel.
All rights (c)(p) Sam Himself 2022
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Sam Himself - "Nothing Like the Night" (lyrics)

Someone’s words tumbleweed through the desert in your skull
Above the blinds the ceiling’s stained by the pasty light of dawn 
Once again the big black bird came home to roost on this scarecrow
A bell’s ringing, time for church, you can’t get up you can’t make the door  

Cause you can’t take it far enough 
Find a cure or taste the blood 
It’s something like the night that lies that way 
But you can’t break if you don’t stop  
Too fast to crash, too high to drop 
There’s just nothing like the night to take you there  
Take you down  

A stranger’s face, twisted in knots, pale and shiny like a doll
Looks back at you through the glass of a crazed one-way window 
With flaring eyes and grating jaws that don’t know what they’re hungry for 
Blue blades for veins to drain what’s left like dirty water from a tub  

You can’t take it far enough 
Find the cure or taste the blood 
It’s something like the night that lies that way 
But you can’t break if you don’t stop  
Too fast to crash, too high to drop 
There’s just nothing like the night to take you there  

So here’s to the brink  
One more time with feeling  
This cage of broken limbs 
If you wanna know it’s yours make it hurt  
If you wanna know it’s yours make it hurt

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