there’s a sadness here in this place,
it makes you feel a depth of dismal disgrace
like the darkness that moves ‘cross your face
and we go where we go to our hiding place

well,

don’t want to preach about this thing
no, no, never really helped the soul to sing
lost my voice not much more i can bring
here’s my heart given as a freewill offering

so it’s black sometimes in this cracked ever-night
but if we dig in the strangest spots sometimes there’s light

may it find us in the tectonic shifting of our sleep
lead us forth from the pain drenched cold deep
lift us from the frozen wastes that chill to the bone
teach us we’re never so alone as when we are alone

but we are not alone
no never never never alone

the sun is behind us
casting a long defining shadow
the image of i
is a featureless imprint all aglow