[2173] in Depressing_Thoughts
a place of darkness
jcbourne@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jcbourne@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Jun 9 04:06:56 1991
my place is of the sun and this place is of the dark / i do not feel the
romance i do not catch the spark / i don't know when i noticed life was life
at my expense / the words of my heart lined up like prisoners on a fence /
the dreams came in like needy children tugging at my sleeve / i said i have
no way of feeding you, so leave / but there was a time i asked my father for
a dollar / and he gave it a ten dollar raise / when i needed my mother i
called her / she stayed with me for days / and now someone's on the telephone,
desperate in his pain / someone's on the bathroom floor doing her cocaine /
someone's got his finger on the button in some room / no one can convince me
we aren't gluttons for our doom / but i tried to make this place my place /
i asked for providence to smile upon me with his sweet face / but i'll tell
you / my place is of the sun and this place is of the dark / i do not feel
the romance i do not catch the spark / my place is of the sun and this place
is of the dark / (by grace my sight grows stronger and i will not / be a pawn
for the prince of darkness any longer)
maybe there's no haven in this world for tender age / my heart beat like the
wings of wild birds in a cage / my greatest hope my greatest cause to grieve /
and my heart flew from its cage and it bled upon my sleeve / the cries of
passion were like wounds that needed healing / i couldn't hear them for the
thunder / i was half the naked distance between hell and heaven's ceiling /
and he almost pulled me under / now someone's on the telephone desperate in
his pain / someone's on the bathroom floor doing her cocaine / someone's got
his finger on the button in some room / no one can convince me we aren't
gluttons for our doom / i tried to make this place my place / i asked for
providence to smile upon me with his sweet face / but i'll tell you / my place
is of the sun and this place is of the dark / i do not feel the romance i do
not catch the spark / my place is of the sun and this place is of the dark /
(by grace my sight grows stronger, grows stronger) / i do not feel the romance
i do not catch the spark / (and i will not be a pawn for the prince of darkness
any longer)
"Prince of Darkness", Indigo Girls
