There Is a Light

Hang on darling
Gentle now
This boy's lost his thunder
In the dirty clouds

Dull white
Starlite
Pale as the morning falls away

The devil each dawn
And flat greys upon
We're torn asunder 'neath his gaze

So c'mon ye children
If there's one thing we know
It's that those gathering clouds are swinging low

So don't you be precious
Man don't you be meek
There ain't no damn glory in the long retreat

Go call the fuzz
They'll shine their lights on us
We've been building in the dark
There's so many of us

Now blinking in the light
There's so many of us

Illuminated and proud
There's so many of us

But there ain't no truth but the no truth but the no truth, yeah!
Ain't no thing but the nothing but the nothing, yeah!
Ain't no fall but the long fall is a long fall, yeah!
And there ain't no light but the true light is a dim light, yeah!

But I've been waiting and longing for that light to fall all over me

Six and six parsons and he doth proclaim
That the best little bits of us misfits and strays
Make a light in the night that needs to be shamed
All for some none for all, and all fallen the same
And we surrender the stage to those pale horse riders
Those pale horse riders
Those pale horse riders

Go forth, man
Get down
With a mighty fist and a retarded crown
Do the one-step the two-step
Sweet jubilee!
And show me the light, goddamn!

Go forth, man
Get down
With a mighty fist and a retarded crown
Do the one-step the two-step
Sweet jubilee!
And show me the light...
And lay me down in a bed full of rain

There is a light
And there is a light
And there is a light
And there is a light

There is a light
And there is a light
And there is a light
And there is a light

Yeah shit is bleak - we've seen it and worried
Our timid leaps get knee-deep and buried
Entire weeks where I swear I can barely rise

Electrical fits
Tantrums and prayers
Pride un-does what mercy repairs
The pits of this
Toss a match to it and start again

The absence of light is its own stubborn light
No light is a light
No light is the true light
And there is no light
For there is a light
Then there is no light
And there is a light!

Though we've been denied
Too much hope in our lives
Let tonight be the night
Let tonight be the night when it ends

Tell me
(There is a light)
Tell me
(There is a light)
Tell me
(There is a light)
Tell me
(There is a light)
Tell me, c'mon!
(There is a light)
Tell me
(There is a light)
Tell me
(There is a light)
Tell me
(There is a light)
There is a light!
There is a light!

Tell me
There is a light

Tell me
There is a light

Tell me
There is a light

Tell me
There is a light