Darkness Fell

Well you told me bout a shrine that you had gone to years ago Where everything was beautiful and calm And you came upon a creek as still as night and chill as snow Where you could wash away the blood upon your palms She looked into your eyes and then she asked if she could stay Just a little while so she could make amends But even as you shine you know you're bound to fade away Whether it's given or it's taken from your hands And you saw a floating dagger, but you didn't see the crime As you crept upon him sleeping in his bed And in your frenzy and your fear you must have stabbed him fifteen times Before you realized the sleeping king was dead Forsaking bullets for a blade you tried to take the world by storm And though the blood you spilled was dark, you knew at least the blood was warm You didn't know exactly when you went and left yourself behind But at that point you didn't really mind With raging darkness in your hand and careless evil in your heart You cut a swathe from town to town and tore young families apart And when the evil had run out you tried start one of your own But then the evil left you totally alone The sunlight streaming on your face, the darkness tried to hide away The girls you'd spared were saying grace, but then what for you couldn't say It seemed so easy just to stop until the urges all returned For peace of mind was all you'd ever yearned And as you stepped into your grave you told me what you had to say You hadn't meant to go so far, you hadn't always been this way You had a family like you wanted and you laid their pretty heads On beds of bone and blankets of the dead