[verse] The moon dances with ink black clouds Dim streetlights flicker on, then off The landscape’s overtaken by shrouds The void is coming to swallow us all [prechorus] Darkness floods down the valleys Across fields and over sleeping barns Forces of the night are advancing And the Shadow King’s leading the charge [chorus] The shadows are rising splitting darkness from light But we are not defenseless Against what slithers in the night I will be your flashlight And hold the Shadow King at bay Cause while we fear what’s just out of sight When we hold on to what’s bright The dark is more afraid [verse 2] A snap punctures the pooling silence Eyes detect movement, just out of view You swear you just heard a whisper, plotting If the gloom takes us, we might not break through [bridge] The Shadow King’s footsteps, never make a sound But where he treads in darkness, creatures emerge from the ground They gnaw at the world’s colors and seek out glints of joy to smother But no matter how vicious they seem They're dissolved by a single light beam [chorus] The shadows are rising splitting darkness from light But we are not defenseless Against what crawls through the night I will be your fire Cast colors the Shadow King hates ‘Cause while we fear creatures beyond our sight When we hold on to what’s bright The dark is more afraid [bridge] As darkness surrounds us, we struggle Not to buckle ‘neath the shadows weight It’s been so long since the sunset Memories of hope fade to gray [chorus] The Shadow King pounces At last, to conquer the light But we are not defenseless Against the forces of the night I will be your daybreak Repel the Shadow King’s raid Cause while we fear dangers that hide When we hold on to what’s bright The Shadow King cowers away The dark is more afraid The dark is afraid
