A Candle in the Dark Lyrics

A Candle in the Dark

In a world filled with mythological creatures banshees fairies and leprechauns

Faith healers fortune tellers cult leaders and the deified have a platform from which to prey upon

Ghosts ghouls goblins gods and devils of ancient ignorance and fear

Imagination into the darkness persists with results being less than austere

And how about Betty and Barnie they both went up the Hill

Two home sapiens abducted by aliens a Hollywood movie well you know the drill

In this self-indulgent demon-haunted world

In this myth-ridden story by the ignorant

Anointing power of attorney to the ancient

Soothsaying diabolical merchant

In this undying need for prayer and ritual

To a no-show no-account patriarch

And dependency upon the divine

I see science as a candle in the dark

Superstition is generational proliferation the undying need for a holy grail

Humanity's desperation for factless sensation renders itself to the pale