Darkness, Darkness

Album: Elephant Mountain (1969)
Charted: 86
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  • Darkness, darkness, be my pillow
    Take my head and let me sleep
    In the coolness of your shadow
    In the silence of your dream

    Darkness, darkness, hide my yearning
    For the things that cannot be
    Keep my mind from constant turning
    Towards the things I cannot see now
    The things I cannot see now
    The things I cannot see

    Darkness, darkness, long and lonesome
    Ease the day that brings me pain
    I have felt the edge of sadness
    I have known the depth of fear

    Darkness, darkness, be my blanket
    Cover me with the endless night
    Take away, take away the pain of knowing
    Fill the emptiness of right now
    Emptiness of right now, now, now
    Emptiness of right now, now

    Darkness darkness, be my pillow
    Take my head and let me sleep
    In the coolness of my shadow
    In the silence of my dream

    Darkness, darkness, be my blanket
    Cover my with the endless night
    Take away away the pain of knowing
    Fill the emptiness of right now
    Emptiness of right now now now
    Emptiness of right
    Oh yeah, oh yeah
    Emptiness, emptiness
    Oh yeah Writer/s: Jesse Colin Young
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Rick Rollins from Knoxville,tn.I’ve always loved this song it brought back memories of 69 and lots of people
  • Jon Mcmillan Christenson from Coarsegold CaliforniaIn the shadow of the Vietnam War, I heard this song. It resonated with emptiness I felt about the youth of our nation ground up the war machine. In the end it became an endless night for my friends who came back forever changed.
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