The Light Lyrics

The Light

You could build a castle keep

With precious words, like blocks of stone

Hewn from a quarry deep

Perfectly formed and bedded home

Embracing isolation

And a darkness you can feel

No light no sign of life in here secures

The pure absence of fear

The light that shines outside

Keeps the darkness in

Each song we sing begins and ends

With hallelujah then amen

Each song we sing begins and ends

With hallelujah then amen

My humble house can be no more

Than just a shelter from most storms

With shuttered windows and padlocked door

I can pretend that I'm not home

To defend this refuge this retreat

I'd dig a moat so deep so wide

Fill it with the wildest beasts the man eating Ferocious kind

The light that shines outside

Keeps the darkness in

Each song we sing begins and ends

With hallelujah then amen

Each song we sing begins and ends

With hallelujah then amen

Should we search to reach safe haven

Of a Buddhist zen community

With music, love and meditation

Silence, stillness, sanctuary

Or live the dream and never worry

Seek the spotlight on the stage

Face the world somehow with courage

To walk in sunlight not in shade

The light that shines outside

Keeps the darkness in

Each song we sing begins and ends

With hallelujah then amen

Each song we sing begins and ends

With hallelujah then amen

Hallelujah then amen

Hallelujah then amen