Darkness Is Near Me - Joshua James

Plenty of money gets a man what he wants

Gold rings from Paris or Spain

Don’t follow too close

up ahead

It’s a million more miles each way

You can talk but be able to acknowledge the fact

All the stories are written on sand

Might be hard to believe but your mind has been

By the people who taught you your name

And when the darkness is near me

I see your line much more clearly

He’s a man filled with sorrow

Because he’s born with a heart

Tell everyone down in heaven

That there is no explanation

To be born with the fear of eternal decay

Well I have heard all the stories, every current event

What happens to men who betray

They’re hung my the heels from the top of the tent

And a family denies them in shame

I had a good time

but I must say goodbye

The magic red rooster is dead

And if we all come together when the terror arrives

I will greet you, I love you, my friends

But when the darkness is near me

I see your line much more clearly

He’s a man filled with sorrow

Because he’s born with a heart

Tell everyone down in heaven

That there is no explanation

To be born with the fear of eternal decay