Lyrics:

In a tree lined street

Where people sleep at night

It was an ordinary hour

At the end of a regular day

It was the seventh house on the right

Just where you'd least expect it

She had just one more picture to hang

Oh, don't break the glass, he thought

Don't hurt your head

The telephone rang



Twenty floors up

And half a mile away

Someone was dialling her

Wanting her - half a mile away

It would be an act of love -



For the law whatever happened

Would be part of the job

Not for him his camera trained

On her window pane

The hammer head crashed back

Into a vase of flowers, she stumbled

Just in time to let the line go dead

Tomorrow he might go too far



Nine weeks he waited

For the time to move

It was just gone midnight

Under a starry sky, and no one heard her cry



Twenty floors up

And half a mile away

Someone was dialling her

Wanting her - half a mile away

It would be an act of love -

On a silent night





With all the doors locked tight

She was unaware of his zooming lens

She shivered now she was hypertense

He was ready for the first love scene

To perform his recurring dream

She wore just one beautiful robe

Oh, at last she's nude, he said

Don't go to bed -

The telephone rang



Nine weeks he waited

For the time to move

It was just gone midnight

Under a starry sky, and no one heard her cry



Twenty floors up

And half a mile away

Someone was dialling her

Wanting her - half a mile away

It would be an act of love -



Oh oh It would be an act of love

Oh oh It would be an act of love

Oh oh It would be an act of love

On a silent night



Oh oh It would be an act of love

Oh oh It would be an act of love

On a silent night