Darkness Fell Lyrics

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