This song reminds me of an uneasy and lonely night drive many years back along the old Kimanis-Keningau road in Sabah, the Malaysian state on Borneo Island. It was an unnerving solitary journey across the Crocker Range because of the road conditions; you could get stuck in the mud somewhere nowhere in pitch dark or you car might break down in the punishing trail.
All I had for company was a Norah Jones CD. Didn’t know how many times she had sung she didn’t know why she didn’t come during the journey.
And when the song “Come away with me in the night” was playing, I couldn’t help but imagining that someone, or something with unsmiling eyes, was singing along in the back seat!