It's a hot night And I don't feel like sleepin I got too much commotion Runnin round my mind Some kind of second sight I see the meaning of everything With the fever of the free and easy In the summertime Ain't nobody gonna give it to ya You got to steal it Ain't nobody gonna live it for ya So you better feel it It's a hot night I hear the dogs in the distance I hear the men comin down the street Pickin up the trash It sounds like a fist fight Like a squalid existence But they're singin in the dawnin day Like nobody asked Ain't nobody gonna give it to ya You got to steal it Ain't nobody gonna live it for ya You better feel it It's a hot night And I don't feel like sleepin I'm lying next to my lover And I can hear his dreams I feel like rising bread Like a hothouse flower Like I'm drunk on whiskey sour Down the street in new orleans It's a hot night I'm lying next to my lover And there's nowhere tomorrow That I need to get So I say not quite Don't take this night away from me I don't feel like sleeping yet