This song was produced by an Italian singer/ songwriter named Raf. Laura Branigan’s cover is the version we hear on the radio in the US.
Her video is a pretty good embodiment of my career in art. “Oh the night is my world.” “In the day nothing matters.” “You’ve got me living only for the night. Before the morning comes the story’s told.” It sounds like she works at some job that she doesn’t love, and goes out at night feeling like there’s something more important out there.
Soon she gets a glimpse of some fleeting spirit that seems to leading her where she wants to go. She ends up in a party that looks kind of like an opening night party for theatre patrons. For those people having fun and enjoying art is part of their lives. But then she follows the mysterious spirit down the stairs and meets the artists. They’re doing and feeling a lot of things that don’t make sense to anyone else. But doing what they’re feeling is how they makes sense of it, because art is their life.
That leads her through intriguing, surprising, even terrifying things, still following the mysterious spirit that she feels is leading her to what she’s looking for. Eventually she goes home, but brings a lot of what happened with her. She wakes up the next morning and tries to make sense of what happened last night. But she feels like it did make sense somehow.
