[Verse 1] Jack won a promise by candlelight A clever tongue and a borrowed night He laughed at doors that others feared And never asked what happened here The town went quiet, the tables cleared The last warm window disappeared He held his bargain like a crown Then found no road would take him down [Pre-Chorus] One gate said no The other stayed shut And all his clever words Were never quite enough [Chorus] No heaven, no hell No doorway left to find No heaven, no hell Just the road and the night He won the deal He lost the way A little fire in an endless grey No heaven, no hell And nowhere left to stay [Verse 2] A Jack-o'-lantern in his hand A cursed glow across the land Across the bog, through iron rain The same old miles return again Somewhere a hearth is burning bright Somebody calls their children in Jack shields the ember from the wind And hears the houses closing in [Chorus] No heaven, no hell No doorway left to find No heaven, no hell Just the road and the night He won the deal He lost the way A little fire in an endless grey No heaven, no hell And nowhere left to stay [Break] In the Dead of Night The flame bends low He knows a thousand roads But not the way back home [Final Chorus] No heaven, no hell No doorway left to find No heaven, no hell Just the road and the night He won the deal He lost the way A little fire in an endless grey No heaven, no hell And nowhere left to stay
