Lyrics

Presence In The Dark

An objective count
Pulling years like teeth
What's accomplished
And what's not
Sorrows in a wreath

Hopes for a new day
Surprises beneath
Incommensurable first light
Lifts my mental heath

There's something at my back
I sense it and not see
A silence that demands
A quiet head on its knees

Looking at my hands
Before I fall asleep
Touched so many things by now
Nothing I should keep

There's presence in the dark
I'm sure it knows my name
It gives my conscience sparks
So discern pain from shame

I've convinced myself
There's some worth to all
I'm learning to overcome the guilt
Intrinsic through the Fall

Beyond the vault of night
A countenance of gold
Beholds my complex maze
My inner worlds unfold

What makes us unique?
Not the outer sheet
So much external decor
Clouds what's underneath

Yeah yeah yeah yeah
The sun is down
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Let go in sleep
Time's reversed
Dissolve

Shut within my own black
A judgment so severe
Carried by astral hands
My day knowing disappears