MISS
YOU NIGHTS
CLIFF RICHARD
SONGWRITER: DAVE TOWNSEND
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM: I’M NEARLY FAMOUS
LABEL: EMI
GENRE: BALLAD
YEAR: 1975
“Miss You Nights" is
a song written by Dave Townsend and made famous worldwide by Cliff Richard. The
song has been recorded by numerous other artists, most notably Westlife, who
released it as the second track on a double A-side single in 2003. The Westlife single reached
number 3 in the UK singles chart.
Sir Cliff Richard OBE(born
Harry Rodger Webb, 14 October 1940) is a British pop singer, musician,
performer, actor and philanthropist. Richard has sold more than 250 million
records worldwide. He has total sales of over 21 million singles in the
United Kingdom and is the third-top-selling artist in UK Singles Chart history,
behind the Beatles and Elvis Presley.
I've had many times
I can tell you
Times when innocence I'd trade for company
And children saw me crying
I thought I'd had my share of that
But these miss you nights
Are the longest
Midnight diamonds
Stud my heaven
Southward burning
Lie the jewels that eye my place
And the warm winds
That embrace me
Just as surely kissed your face
Yeah these miss you nights
Are the longest
How I miss you
I'm not likely to tell
I'm a man and cold day light
Buys the pride I'd rather sell
All my secrets
Are wasted affair
You know them well
Thinking of my going
How to cut the thread
And leave it all behind
Looking windward for my compass
I take each day as it arrives
But these miss you nights
Are the longest
Lay down all thought of your surrender
It's only me who's killing time
Lay down all dreams and themes once remembered
It's just the same
This miss you game
Yeah these miss you nights
Are the longest.