Dark Corners

[Verse 1:]

Gangster, The Revolutionary, A Rape Victim, Random Accident

Drug Addict, A Politician

Whatever our self, or worldly definition

We can’t escape the chariot of transition

Some characterise it as the judgement of the sinners

Others spiritualise it and they say: 'There is no difference.'

Energy ain’t created or destroyed it just changes form

Once we play the song the sound just travels on

[Chorus:]

Dark Corners

The Dark Corners are the place where we look death in the face

And we let it give us chase but it always gets away

Dark corners are the place where we’re running out of luck

And we cannot back it up. Death always catches up

[Verse 2]

As the needle plunged into the vein and blood was exchanged

For dosing around Afghan something was strange

This time the substance he injected was pure

Everything he had before had been cut never raw

Like all users he had used to make the pain disappear

And it was the only time in life that his mind had felt clear

He had struggled with the sickness ever since fourteen

When he remembered the hand that touched him understood what it means

After even longer struggle he finally got clean and met a girl that made it worth pursuing his dreams

They had plans to start a family with a wedding in June

He didn’t know he was so conventional but yeah it was true

So when the news came about Michelle he just lost it

Ran straight back to the same block where he used to cop it

His old connect came up in the world who’d supply a grade much higher

Went and he hit it straight fire

His skinny body went into shock and fell asleep

His brains forget to tell the lungs that he needed to breathe

Dark corners. Now he’s in them dark corners

When we hit them dark corners we can’t see

But dark corners

[Verse 3]

A good girl, a normal girl that was everybody’s view and though this annoyed her

She couldn’t deny that it was true

Whatever conventional was she was it

Grew up with both parents nice house in the Sticks

Though they had never been rich they certainly did prosper

Parents from Nigeria and both of them doctors

Church every Sunday, she had never missed a week ever

School she was top of the class yet they demanded better

Went straight to Cambridge, studying law

But had strange dreams of justice and helping the poor

Maybe that was part of why she chose him, didn’t know what in her mind

But he was clever and kind of a little troubled inside

Her parents wanted for her a nice Yoruba boy

So when they found out he was English they were slightly annoyed

But when they found out he was addicted to drugs it was too painful

Said they ‘wouldn’t come to the wedding it was totally shameful.’

Michelle left the house in a storm

It was a rainy night she never saw the truck before it ended her life

Her parents had decided that they would apologise

But they never got the chance in the end

We live on borrowed time and when them dark corners come

No, you cannot run

No longer shall your skin bathe in the sun, that’s right. When them dark corners come

No, you cannot run. No longer shall your skin bathe in the sun

[Chorus]

Dark Corners

The Dark Corners are the place where we look death in the face

And we let it give us chase but it always gets away

Dark corners are the place where we’re running out of luck

And we cannot back it up. Death always catches up

Dark Corners are the place where we look death in the face

And we let it give us chase but it always gets away

Dark corners are the place where we’re running out of luck

And we cannot back it up. Death always catches up

[Verse 4:]

Born of Old Money, yeah, born into wealth

But how well did he play with the cards he was dealt?

In his life on this Earth trip

The family confessed, even his father was slightly jealous of what he accomplished

Became an icon

Products became the symbols of the age

Each time they were released you should have seen all the craze

Seen as an innovator

The great creator but beneath all the shine and the sheen was the slave labour

And of course, there was that war they were funding to keep

The minerals flowing from the African Republic when the products they released

Ever came of the scrutiny

The scientist that authored the report disappeared

Thus, the message is clear, as power is old

It’s blood nourishes soil in which powerful grows

Power changes reality and this CEO had enough leverage that the media only painted him as gold

But despite all the wealth and the things that he owned

On his deathbed he couldn’t find comfort for his soul

All he could see is images of death [?]

Victims of mercenaries that this government had trained, died in a cold sweat

Drowned him in shame

Billions couldn’t buy him another day or numb the pain

[Chorus]

Dark Corners

The Dark Corners are the place where we look death in the face

And we let it give us chase but it always gets away

Dark corners are the place where we’re running out of luck

And we cannot back it up. Death always catches up

Dark Corners are the place where we look death in the face

And we let it give us chase but it always gets away

Dark corners are the place where we’re running out of luck

And we cannot back it up. Death always catches up