Featured Unknown/Underrated Song: Gino Vannelli's "Nightwalker"

In 1981, Gino Vannelli had just come off one of his biggest career hits--"Living Inside Myself".  He released this great song as a follow-up, and for inexplicable reasons, it stalled at #41.  It should have followed "Living Inside Myself" into the Top 10:

 

"Living Inside Myself"

Gino Vannelli

 

Lyrics and Music by Gino Vannelli

 

I sleep at night
On a cloud high on the horizon
And when I close my eyes
My soul is struck by lightning

Then I sleep at night
Like a storm

Oh, I walk the night
'cause your head is gone from my pillow

And when the twilight shines
My eyes crash through the windows
'cause I sleep at night without you

When it's dark and the night lays me down

When the moon shines the light on the ground
I just run where my thoughts take me to
'cause I can't live in this world
Without love without you
I walk the night
I walk the night

 

 

Oh, I dream at night
It must be a madman's rainbow that I'm chasing
'cause when I close my eyes
I feel your sweet sensation

'cause I dream at night about you

When it's dark and the night lays me down
When the moon shines the light on my ground
I just run where my thoughts take me to

'cause I can't live in this world
Without love without you
I walk the night
I walk the night

 

I just run where my thoughts take me to
'cause I can't live in this world
Without love without you
I walk the night
I walk the night