[Intro] She comes where the candles bow A winter hush is falling now [Verse 1] They call her Lady dressed in black The room grows dim along her track A candle gutters, loses flame The sun is veiled when she is named [Pre-Chorus] She keeps a door beneath her ribs A narrow seam where daylight slips She reaches out, then draws away The dark has learned her name to stay [Chorus] Lady in black, turn toward the dawn You feel the morning, but it’s gone You climb the stair, you seek the sky The dark closes in each time you try Who gives their heart to the night below Will wear its silence wherever they go [Verse 2] She finds the hill at break of day A cloud rolls in and takes it away She cups one spark against the cold It dies before her hands can hold [Pre-Chorus] Still through the hush she strains to rise With one last prayer behind her eyes But every road bends back again To the same unending, lightless end [Chorus] Lady in black, turn toward the dawn You feel the morning, but it’s gone You climb the stair, you seek the sky The dark closes in each time you try Who gives their heart to the night below Will wear its silence wherever they go [Bridge] Was there a moment you could have stayed Before the first small flame betrayed? You call for morning; none reply The cloud consumes the open sky [Final Chorus] Lady in black, the day is gone The candles fail, the sun is drawn You climb the stair, you seek the sky The dark closes in each time you try Who gives their heart to the night below Will wear its silence wherever they go Forever below, forever alone The dark has claimed what it calls its own [Outro] A wick goes cold The hill turns dim No door swings wide The dark takes in
