Lyrics Laura Marling – Darkness Descends

You’re holding bits of styrofoam
With your face painted on to your friends,
You listen to them whine and moan
About everything you can’t understand.

Can I just say I don’t fear the light,
But darkness descends once more into my life.

And suddenly we’re all alone in silence,
So I take a step away.
I look up to the falling snow
As it makes its home upon my face.
Well I wouldn’t want to ruin something I couldn’t save,
The gap will keep us safe,
The gap will keep us safe.

Step away, get me when I’m down.

And suddenly I’m five years old
And I’m just so cold I want to cry.
I haul up on my gentlemen,
Who have always been there in hard times.
They’re just not like that man of mine,
Who visit me from time to time.

My love, I treasure you.

I hear that summer’s coming back
So I stretch out my back and travel a long,
The winter though it darkens me
It is pure and clean and all I want.
I’ll apologize to the ones I love,
For leaving them when the sun comes up.

Too bright for me, darkness descends.

Oh well I’m not well again,
And once more darkness it descends.

Convinced that I am going mad,
Oh I bury my head into his hands
So sure that I’m loosing faith,
Oh I clear a space in his fathers land.

You deal with God far too young,
Before you know it your life has run away.