The Dark Side of the Light

from Born For These Times (unmastered) by Benjamin Blake

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Dive into the river like an old familiar lover
But the fool’s gold you’ve been earning is like stones in your pockets
You’re not swimming
The sorrow inside you fills you up light nightfall
Blinded by highbeams you die in your daydreams

You steal me from the earth and show me it’s as empty as the sky
You steal me from myself and show me the dark side of the light

See the mark of Cain on the one that you love
Stare into those eyes, they’re not afraid of a little blood
Sometimes your love flows out you from your veins into the earth
Sometimes you are the killer, sometimes the mother giving birth

You steal me from the earth and show me I’m as empty as the sky
You steal me from myself and show me the dark side of the light

This table that I sit at is like an inn along the highway
And I’m the old innkeeper, I’ve been here forever
Sometimes a weary traveler comes to join me at my table
But the night’s my true companion, she loves me and she scorns me

She steals me from the earth and shows me its as empty as the sky
She steals me from myself and shows me the dark side of the light

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from Born For These Times (unmastered), released April 19, 2018

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