[Verse 1] I came up off the moor with the mud still on my knees, the same wild ground that took me when I begged it for release. I don't remember walking, only that I wasn't alone — some kindly thing had hold of me and would not let me go. [Pre-chorus] And the morning came the way the old prayer said it would, and the faces that I lost were standing where the fen once stood. [Chorus] For whoever's in the gloom tonight, whoever's far from home, I'll be the kindly light. I will lead you on. I never had the whole of it. One step was all I knew. But one step was enough for me, and one step's enough for two. [Verse 2] I have crossed the kind of country where you don't come back the same, where the torrent learns your given name and the crag forgets your shame. I left a younger man face-down in the water I went under too, and the only thing that pulled me up was something kind, and true. [Chorus] For whoever's in the gloom tonight, whoever's far from home, I'll be the kindly light. I will lead you on. I never had the whole of it. One step was all I knew. But one step was enough for me, and one step's enough for two. [Bridge] So I'm going back down for you, into the fen and the fog, the way that something came for me and would not let me go. I am not the morning, love, I'm just a man who knows the road — but I have walked it once already, and I will not leave you alone. [Final chorus — bigger] For whoever's in the gloom tonight, whoever's far from home, I'll be the kindly light. I will lead you on. I never had the whole of it. One step was all I knew. But one step was enough for me, and one step's enough for two. [Outro] So lead on. (lead on) One step, and then one more. Lead on.
