Angelo Badalamenti (March 22, 1937 - December 11, 2022) was an American com… Read Full Bio ↴Angelo Badalamenti (March 22, 1937 - December 11, 2022) was an American composer for film and television, best known for his hauntingly atmospheric work with filmmaker David Lynch, whose collaborations include Blue Velvet, Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Soundtrack Awards in 2008.

Angelo Badalamenti was born in Brooklyn, New York, United States to an Italian family. He began taking piano lessons at age eight and spent much of his childhood listening to opera and classical music. He studied at the Eastman School of Music and at Manhattan School of Music where he earned a master's degree in music. A classically trained performer, he spent the early years of his career playing the Catskills resort area, later writing and arranging for singers including Shirley Bassey and country star Mel Tillis. Under the pseudonym Andy Badale, he entered the film industry in 1973, debuting with the score to the action film Gordon's War. Despite subsequent work on such features as Law and Disorder (1974) and Across the Great Divide (1976), Badalamenti remained largely unknown.

In 1986, Badalamenti was hired to compose the score for David Lynch's Blue Velvet; subsequently, they continued their partnership, Badalamenti composing scores for films such as Wild at Heart and The Straight Story. Arguably the most famous collaboration of theirs was the cult hit television series Twin Peaks, for which Badalamenti created one of the most distinctive and evocative theme songs in television history. The duo also wrote and produced a pair of records for ethereal chanteuse Julee Cruise: Floating Into the Night (1989), which contained some songs from Twin Peaks, and The Voice of Love (1993). They also staged an avant-garde musical theater piece titled Industrial Symphony No. 1, which was shown onstage twice in 1989.

In 1996 collaborated with James vocalist Tim Booth, the fruits of their labors being the LP Booth and the Bad Angel. In 2005, Badalamenti composed part of the score for the video game Fahrenheit (known in North America as Indigo Prophecy), bringing his atmospheric ambience to a new medium.

On December 11, 2022, Badalamenti died at his home in Lincoln Park, New Jersey, aged 85.

Into the Night
Angelo Badalamenti Lyrics

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Now it's dark.

Into the night
I cry out
I cry out your name.
Into the night
I search out
I swearch out your love.

Night so dark
Where are you?
Come back in my heart
So dark
So dark.

Into the night
Shadows fall
Shadows fall so blue.
I cry out
I cry out for you.

Night so dark
Where are you?
Come back in my heart
So dark

So dark
So dark.

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of Angelo Badalamenti's "Into the Night" speak about longing, loss, and loneliness. The singer is in the dark of the night, searching and crying out for someone they love. The sense of darkness and absence is palpable in the repeated line "Night so dark, where are you?" The singer's heart is empty without the person they are searching for and they implore them to return, to fill the darkness with love and light.

The use of light and darkness imagery is particularly poignant in this song. The night is a metaphor for the emptiness and absence the singer is feeling, and the shadows that fall are a representation of the sadness and melancholy they are experiencing. The contrast between the darkness of the night and the blue of the shadows emphasizes the singer's emotional turmoil. The repeated plea of "come back in my heart" is a powerful reminder of the emotional depth of the song, and the need for love and human connection.

Line by Line Meaning

Now it's dark.
The environment around me is dark.

Into the night
I am moving into a period of darkness.

I cry out
I express my feelings loudly.

I cry out your name.
I am calling your name to get your attention.

Into the night
I am moving deeper into the darkness.

I search out
I am looking for something.

I swearch out your love.
I am searching for your love.

Night so dark
The darkness is intense.

Where are you?
I can't find you.

Come back in my heart
I want you to be with me again.

So dark
The darkness is creating a strong feeling.