The Jewel in the Dark Verse 1 A ship without a harbor Doesn’t care which way winds blow, And a heart that hides its treasure Has no map for where to go. I sat beneath an ancient tree, Above a valley dressed in green, While the wind turned me like autumn leaves Through places I had never seen. Pre-Chorus Why does sorrow find me When the world is shining bright? Maybe beauty wakes the hunger For a deeper kind of light. Chorus There’s a jewel in the dark, Buried somewhere in my soul, I have crossed a thousand deserts Searching far from where it glows. There’s a wolf behind my heartbeat, There’s a dream beneath the scars, And tonight I’ll turn my shadows Into lanterns for the stars. Verse 2 Then a howl rolled down the mountain, Like a warning through the stone, And the beast I kept in silence Raised its hungry head at home. It had led me into ruins, It had tasted all my fears, But I swore beneath that old tree: “You will not command me here.” Pre-Chorus I did not fight with anger, I did not answer tooth with blade, I faced it with the truth inside me And watched its kingdom fade. Chorus There’s a jewel in the dark, Buried somewhere in my soul, I have crossed a thousand deserts Searching far from where it glows. There’s a wolf behind my heartbeat, There’s a dream beneath the scars, And tonight I’ll turn my shadows Into lanterns for the stars. Bridge I broke no bones, I drew no blood, I only let the daylight in, And every monster loses power When you finally name its sin. So I dipped my pen in dreaming, Not in sorrow, not in pain, And wrote until the moon arose Like silver after rain. Final Chorus There’s a jewel in the dark, And I know now where it lies, Not beneath a foreign mountain, Not beneath another sky. There’s a wolf behind my heartbeat, But it no longer knows my name, I have turned its teeth to verses, I have turned its howl to flame. Outro The moon stood still above me, The valley held its breath, And I wrote a song of beauty From the things that wished me death.
