It's a hot night And I don't feel like sleeping I got too much commotion Running '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 now It's a hot night I hear the dogs in the distance I hear the men coming down the street Pickin' up the trash It sounds like a fist fight Like a squalid existence But they're singing in the dawning 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' So you better feel it now It's a hot night And I don't feel like sleeping 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 (Hot night...) (Hot night...) (Hot night...) (Hot night...) It's a hot night 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 sleepin' I said I don't feel like sleepin' Said I don't feel like sleeping yet