Gonna Be a Darkness

There's gonna be roses

And your picture in a frame

The women will be cryin' and the men they will whisper your name

Umbrellas will be open

On a hillside of graves

The children will be dressed up and chase each other in the rain

And there's gonna be a darkness

It may be colder than you'd guess

There may not be music

There may not be stairs

There may not be angels filling the air

Your mother may be there

Your father may be there

There may not be voices sent from a throne to carry you home

Now Heaven may not get you

The Devil may see you first

He's hitting himself in both the beast and the birth

A stranger may have found you

Where the angels have lulled you to sleep

To swallow you whole like a whale from your head to your feet

And there's gonna be a darkness

It may be colder than you'd guessed

There may not be music

There may not be stairs

There may not be angels filling the air

Your mother may be there

Your father may be there

There may not be voices sent from a throne to carry you home

Where you think there's a place

Wide open and white

Where you think you'll be safe

Where you think there's a light

There's gonna be a darkness

May be colder than you'd guessed

There may not be music

There may not be stairs

There may not be angels filling the air

Your mother may be there

Your father may be there

There may not be voices sent from a throne to carry you home

There may not be music

There may not be stairs

There may not be angels filling the air

Your mother may be there

Your father may be there

There may not be voices sent from a throne to carry you home

There's gonna be roses

And your picture in a frame

The women will be cryin' and the men they will whisper your name