Live On In The Dark

Once you eyes they shone like flashlights, fountains of clarity

And the most alkaline of batteries were you and me

Free of failure, flicker or fade

Yeah but depending where you're from too much daylight can seem like an oddity

And devotion is a commodity, so with you it seems

It only comes in trade

Yeah but the first time the bill isn't paid, it's too late

So you just live in the dark

You could drive but you just park

You just talk when you could sing

And now it doesn't mean a thing

You could bite, but you just bark

You could light but you just spark

You live on in the dark

Rolling papers, bottles and needles, and people we trusted

Our eyes just become too adjusted

We'd be busted

If sightlessness were a crime

So now I guess I should be searching for matches but I don't see what's the use

Engines run 'till they're out of juice

And I can't even produce

Fuel enough to light your face

And that's a light I will never replace in time

So I just live on in the dark

I could drive but I just park

I just talk when I could sing

And now it doesn't mean a thing

I could bite, but I just bark

I could light but I just spark

I live on in the dark

It's as if we've only ever come together just to test each other's mettle

Or to justify subsistence or bolster our resistance to the idea that we should struggle

When we could just settle

So you just get numb to every itch

And there's no feeling in your fingertips

And you can't find the switch

And we've grown much too tired to grope

Yeah, we lost all our fire to cope a long time ago

So we just live on in the dark

We could drive but we just park

We just talk when we could sing

And now it doesn't mean a thing

We could bite but we just bark

We could light but we just spark

We live on in the dark