Razor of the Night
When the night comes falling down,
Will the morning come around?
I met darkness at the bottom of a staircase,
Had a razor for a handshake,
smile on a straight face.
Said, "I know you,
boy, I watched you lose your way," I said,
"Funny, I was thinking you should move out of my place." Had
a pocket full of reasons and a head full of rain,
Made a kingdom out of habits,
put a crown on the pain.
Every mirror told a story,
every story had a price,
Every shortcut through the fire made me pay for it twice.
I seen good men turn cold over things they couldn't change,
Seen a stranger in my reflection looking perfectly arranged.
Had the world at my window,
kept the curtains pulled tight,
Till I noticed all my silhouettes needed somewhere without light.
Funny how the dark can make a prison feel like home.
Funny how the light
can show you weren't alone.
Darkness has a razor,
But it cannot cut the sun.
Every shade has an ending,
Every night can be outrun.
Let the whole sky fall to pieces,
Let the thunder shake the room.
Darkness only holds the kingdom
Till the light comes shining through.
I used to call it bad luck,
now I call it bad math,
Kept subtracting every blessing,
multiplying every laugh. Took advice from my reflection when the mirror had
a crack, Then got mad at every person who was trying to
pull me back. See,
the devil doesn't need you to believe he's in the room,
Just convince you every sunrise is another kind of doom.
Put a price upon tomorrow,
sell you yesterday for free,
Make a cage feel like a castle if he lets you hold
the key. But I learned a little something from a candle in
the rain, It ain't bigger than the darkness,
it just doesn't play its game.
Doesn't argue with the midnight,
doesn't bargain with the gloom,
Just keeps burning like it knows what every sunrise is gonna do.
Darkness has a razor,
But it cannot cut the sun.
Every shade has an ending,
Every night can be outrun.
Let the whole sky fall to pieces,
Let the thunder shake the room.
Darkness only holds the kingdom
Till the light comes shining through.
I don't need the whole horizon.
Just a crack beneath the door.
If the light can find a way in,
I can find a little more.
Darkness has a razor,
But it cannot cut the sun.
Every shade has an ending,
Every night can be outrun.
Let the whole sky fall to pieces,
Let the thunder shake the room.
Darkness only holds the kingdom
Till the light comes shining through.
Darkness
never
owned the world.