Hold me close Something in your eyes Hold me close and don’t let me go Like I’m someone that you might know The darkness just lets us see I've got your life inside of me The star that gives us light

Sitting up, late at night I tiptoe through the darkness Cold as hell, black as spades Aware of my immediate surrounding In my place I escape up into my hideout Hiding from everyone My friends all say, "Dave you're mental anyway" hey! Drift into a deeper

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

From your memory Without your love Another day without you It's getting harder to face (harder to face) It's even louder in the silence And it's always the same The darkness always finds me

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

This is now your life Die buried alive Tell me only if it's real On and on it goes Hey I can't live in here for another day Darkness has kept the light concealed Grim as ever Hold on to faith as I dig another grave Meanwhile the mice endure the wheel

Ring around the rosies Pocket full of posies Ashes, ashes, we all fall down Nursery rhymes are said, verses in my head Into my childhood they're spoon fed Hidden violence revealed, darkness that seems real Look at the pages that cause all this evil Mary

You'll find your way Past the pain of all your struggles Through the rain of all your troubles Over rocky mountains Out of whippin' winds of change Down those highways paved with doubt and darkness Follow with all your heart and don't lose faith Hey

I am with you always From the life until death takes me From the darkness tonight until the morning From life until death takes me In these moments of lost in torment When the vast skies don’t seem to call to you When the weight of this world press down

There to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire Who durst defy the omnipotent to arms Nine times the space that measures day and night Rolling in the fiery gulf Confounded though immortal, but his doom Reserved him to more wrath, for now the thought