Patient is the Night Songs of the Series Over The Garden Wall Cartoon Network
Patient is the Night is a song featured in Over the Garden Wall in the episode Hard Times at the Huskin' Bee when Wirt, Gregory, and Beatrice are sentenced to a few hours of manual labor from Enoch in Pottsfield. The singer is Chris Isaak.
Trivia[]
- In Schooltown Follies, Ms. Langtree can be seen playing this song on the piano.
Lyrics:[]
Among the fields of straw and stover
Clocked in 'til the work day's over
Time’s a gentle stream, longer than it seems
Patient is the night
How I long to see her face now
Her starry moonlit gaze now
I know she’s never late, still anxiously I wait
Patient is the night
(Whistling~)
I know she's never late, still anxiously I wait
Patient is the night.
The ending credits of the Composer's Mix from the episode Hard Times at the Huskin' Bee in the DVD includes the lines (which presumably were to go after the first stanza):
In the fields the sun is setting
The hours and the clouds spreading
Lazy 'cross the sky, with no end in sight
patient is the night
Meaning[]
One interpretation is that the narrator is awaiting death. This is evidenced by the fact that despite proclaiming to be "clocked in till the work day's over" he says that he is anxiously waiting instead of working, in this case, the night would mean death, alongside the woman who is described. This could be signifying Wirt as he expresses an inclination to remain in Pottsfield and after his ultimate decision to keep traveling essentially confronting and overcoming death, he ceases to recite his morose poetry only picking it back up after his being betrayed by Beatrice.
It may also represent the Woodcutter. Though the woodcutter is not seen during the song.