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Thread #74867   Message #1310807
Posted By: PoppaGator
29-Oct-04 - 03:20 PM
Thread Name: poem or essay on Darkness
Subject: Lyr Add: DARKNESS, DARKNESS (Jesse Colin Young)
Here you go: "Darkness, Darkness":

(As a bonus, I'm also pasting in the next song listed on the lyrics page I found, interesting because the title/topic is the exact opposite -- "Sunlight")

Darkness, darkness
Jesse Colin Young

Darkness, darkness, be my pillow,
Take my hand, and let me sleep.
In the coolness of your shadow,
In the silence of your deep.
Darkness, darkness, has me yearning,
For things that cannot be.
Keep me my mind from constant turning,
Toward the things it cannot see,
Things it cannot see,
Things it cannot see.

Darkness, darkness, long and lonesome,
As the day brings the pain.
I have found the edge of stillness,
I live in the depth of fear.
Darkness, darkness, be my blanket,
Cover me with endless night,
Take away the pain that flows away,
Fill the emptiness with bright,
Emptiness with bright,
Emptiness with bright.

Darkness, darkness, be my pillow,
Take my hand, and let me sleep.
In the coolness of your shadow,
In the silence of your deep.
Darkness, darkness, be my blanket,
Cover me with endless night,
Take away the pain that flows away,
Fill the emptiness with bright,
Emptiness with bright,
Emptiness with bright.



Sunlight                                                               Jesse Colin Young

Have you seen the sunlight pouring through her hair
And felt her warm mouth on ya in the summer's air
Running in a field of brown, laughing, rolling on the ground now
Smiling as she pulls you down
That's the way she feels about you
That's the way she feels about you

If your dreams should wake you shaking in the night
She can touch your face and take away all fright
Like a tree in a meadow wind she will bend to take you in
Makes no difference where you been
That's the way she feels about you
That's the way she feels about you--yeah

If you wake up screaming, scared about what you're dreaming
You know she is there, she can share
You're aware she cares about you

In the morning wake up laughing with the day
She will smile and ask you with her eyes to stay
Like the sunshine warms the sand
She will touch you with her hand now
Touching makes you understand
That's the way she feels about you
That's the way she feels about you

La la la la la la
La la la la la la

If you wake up screaming, scared about what you're dreaming
You know she is there, she can share
You're aware she cares about you

In the morning wake up laughing with the day
She will smile and ask you with her eyes to stay
Like the sunshine warms the sand
She will touch you with her hand now
Touching makes you understand
Oh that's the way she feels about you
That's the way she feels about you--yeah
That's the way she feels about you
That's the way she feels about you