[Intro | cracked music box, 8-bit moon static, choir breathing] [Choir, hummed] Ah—ah—ah— the dark has a bed. [Verse 1 | sung, low] The house went still without a clock The hallway learned my name A shadow stepped across the lock And said it wasn’t real I followed quiet into sleep I thought I found a door I didn’t hear the night get deep I only asked for more [Pre-Chorus | sung, rising] Don’t bless the dark that finds you Don’t praise the dream that waits It only loves the living rest Still folding in your chest [Chorus | lead + night choir] Darkrai, Darkrai Saint of the sleepless mile You wear a nightmare like a hymn And smile a moonlight smile Darkrai, Darkrai Mercy made of pitch You teach the lost to close their eyes Then never give them back [Verse 2 | sung] They find the bodies in their beds With eyes still open wide Their mouths still shaped around a prayer The morning will not hide The sun can climb the window latch This circle will not wake A little 8-bit hymn still ticks Behind a second face [Pre-Chorus] Don’t look too long into the crest A new moon learned to pray If you can taste your own last rest You’re already the prey [Chorus] Darkrai, Darkrai Saint of the sleepless mile You wear a nightmare like a hymn And smile a moonlight smile Darkrai, Darkrai Mercy made of pitch You teach the lost to close their eyes Then never give them back [Verse 3 | sung, quieter] It doesn’t hunt along the ground It hunts the need to sleep It waits until you beg the night To take you somewhere deep It drinks the rest before the flesh It files you with the dark It leaves a bedroom like a church And writes you as the ark [Bridge | choir sung] [Choir] A pitch-black saint, the stories wrote That only haunts a dream They printed it in children’s books So no one hears the scream [Lead, sung] That line was never written kind It wasn’t made to warn It was a hunting call in rhyme For anyone still warm [Chorus | bigger] Darkrai, Darkrai Black chapel, no way home You fold a body into night And wear it while you roam Darkrai, Darkrai Silence learned a tune You leave the morning quieter And hungrier too soon [Final Chorus | lead + full choir] Darkrai, Darkrai Saint of the sleepless mile You wear a nightmare like a hymn And smile a moonlight smile Darkrai, Darkrai Say it if you dare The new moon bows. The shadow looks in. It already knows you’re there. [Outro | sung, thinning] [Lead] If the quiet begins to carry A voice you almost know— [Choir] Don’t fall asleep. Don’t fall asleep. That’s how the gospel gets in. [Lead, fading] Darkrai… [Choir, last held note] …still hungry.
