Ngempilo yami yonke (With all my life) Here we stand waiting on the plain Darkness has taken the last outpost of the day Somewhere gunships hunt their illusive prey And I know inside you feel the same way The sky in your heart is so grey And the jackals

You deceived that he believed In the bloodstained cross All the players in this world Won't help you now Cut off from the The door is about to slam shut Armageddon, drawing near As darkness, it comes You all fall

We found our way and blocked it out Cry alone, and die alone Pray alone, and stay alone Drown out, the voice that breaks the silence And talks the joy out of everything You were found out and had to walk In darkness without the only thing you care about

You killed the life You took the diamond You killed the vine I burned out my eyes I cut off my tongue I sealed them with all of the silver And now I have none Death of the You own the darkness

Life to lifeless Humanity cover me With the ashes of remembrance I will learn from this pain To eternity The cycle repeats I'll rebuild me There is no darkness without light to teach us of ourselves Death unfolds itself painfully

You are my last, my first And then I hear this voice inside You are my heaven on earth She was lost in so many different ways Out in the darkness with no guide I know the cost of a losing hand But for the grace of God go I I found heaven on earth

Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away Take me through the darkness to the break of the day There's not a soul out there No one to hear my prayer (Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight) (Half past

You're holding bits of styrofoam With your face painted on to your friends You listen to them whine and moan About everything you can't understand Can I just say I don't feel the light, But darkness descends once more into my life And suddenly we're all

Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! A man after midnight Won't somebody help me Chase the shadows away Take me through the darkness To the break of the day There's not a soul out there No one to hear my prayer Half past twelve

I've seen loneliness She wrapped me up with such tenderness Come in from the darkness on the edge of this three tree town Because it's thicker than the woods out there Settles harder than the cold winter ground Come in from the shadows of these boot