The Darkness and a Salvation Song

Spoken alone:

When there's an ocean's worth of it
Dammed behind your eyes

Waves without words

Storms held in glass bottles

The fractures show

But we hold it in, hold the pain in

Nowhere to go

Always alone

I'll fade till I'm gone

No, I'm not real

The broken darkness

It comes for us

Crawls through the cracks

Sets in

Then swallows us whole

Our fears shown true:

Hope doesn't exist

Everything is meaningless

I will never be loved

So that's all we'll know

Our shackles are this

A sinking stone

Frayed fabric worn thin

A puddle on the curb

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A song sung together:

Roll off of me 

Roll off of me 

My gladness has been gone 

I’ve been bound for so long 

Roll off of me 

Roll off of me 

Roll off of me 

These burdens are our clothes 

Dark specters come and go 

Roll off of me 

Shake, shake, shake 

You chains 

Tremble before 

The Ancient of Days 

We’ve been enslaved 

These 400 years 

But the end is come 

Our Jail Breaker is here 

Tremble, tremble, tremble 

Before Him 

The earth it faints 

Before His glory 

These boulders I carry 

Had better scurry 

He comes to reveal

His salvation story

Bring, bring, bringer 

Of joy 

His is the way 

The truth and the life 

He's held out hurting 

Through the night

Into our darkness 

The morning light 

Breaker of chains 

Easer of pains 

We wait before Him 

Our hope is nigh 

Breaker of chains 

Easer of pains 

We wait before Him 

Our hope is nigh