"They Suffocate at Night" is the first single from the album Freaks by British band Pulp, released in 1987.

[1][2] The song and its B-side "Tunnel" were later included on the compilation album Masters of the Universe.

[3][2] All songs written and composed by Pulp.

Singer Jarvis Cocker recalled of the video: "It was made by someone who claimed to have done the lighting on Chariots of Fire, which impressed us a great deal at the time... we could only afford one roll of film, so he had to keep winding the film backwards and forwards for different bits of the song.

I converted an inspection pit, in an abandoned warehouse across the road from the factory where I was living, into a sunken bedroom... For some reason, there was a horse skeleton in the building so that ended up in the film too.