No One Lit The Lamp So I Swallowed The Dark

Intro Porch was black as a closed-up church

Verse 1 Porch was black as a closed-up church Not a window down the road Hollered once for someone's lantern Heard the crickets, heard the cold Nobody owed me any candle Nobody came to hold the flame So I quit my squinting for it And I let the night come claim

Pre-Chorus There's no rescue in the lane Stopped expecting one again

Chorus No one lit the lamp, so I swallowed the dark Drank it down like a bitter wine Done with waiting on a borrowed spark Made the whole black mine

Verse 2 Now I know the yard by braille Every root and every stone Don't trip on what I can't see coming Made the whole black yard my own The men with lamps, they stumble When the wind comes up to spite But you can't blow out a fellow Who quit needing any light

Pre-Chorus There's no rescue in the lane Stopped expecting one again

Chorus No one lit the lamp, so I swallowed the dark Drank it down like a bitter wine Done with waiting on a borrowed spark Made the whole black mine

Bridge They'll tell you fear the darkness Like it's something out to harm But the dark don't ask you nothing And it holds you kind of warm No one lit the lamp, so I swallowed the dark Drank it down like a bitter wine Done with waiting on a borrowed spark Made the whole black mine

Outro No one lit the lamp, so I swallowed the dark And I made the whole black mine

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