Stark

If I could find the darkness
 There would be true night for me
 & the stars that hang in brightness
 Would be too stark to see
 & the moon has whispered ages
 That she is coming to my throne
 That to her this soul of fighting
 Is a nest to make her home
 So I'll hold her like an angel
 I'll hold her like the sea
 And the ways I would possess her
 Are the ways she slips from me
 It's a long rise
 Rise to the edge and I'm gone
 These trains they move like islands
 Got my ear against the tracks
 I'm rollin, rollin
 I'm never coming back
 'cause this land is cut like diamonds
 And sold as quick as bought
 I trade the rain for steel
 And the days my heart forethought
 I have always cheated
 The death that came for me
 With a song of someone bleeding
 And a star too stark to see
 It's a long rise
 Rise to the edge and I'm gone
 So if I could find the darkness
 There would be true night for me
 And the stars that hang in brightness
 Would be too stark to see
 Somewhere there's lightning
 Hidden within your storm
 I could die in your eye
 But this radio keeps us warm
 The river stole your secrets
 The wind bore out my lines
 Now your body is my temple
 And this moon I take for mine
 It's a long rise
 Rise to the edge and I'm gone