The Dark of Night

Music by Rebekka Paige (SOCAN)

Lyrics by Colby Latocha (SOCAN)

Originally recorded by: The Rifle & The Writer

on the album Flowers of Chance (2017)


It's sitting there on the corner,

Where the main street bends,

It's 6pm daily,

When the usual crowd walks in


They're stumbling and lonely,

The same as way back when,

Their parents did the same thing,

Time and time again,


Suppose this is the silence,

We were promised when we began,

The bottom of the bottle,

Where the dark of night begins


The bottom of the bottle,

Where the dark of night begins


I can't say we're different,

Drinking after gospel ends,

Families left broken,

Assembly lines suspend


Lost there on the sidewalk,

As streetlight crowns kings,

Thrones never meant to be taken,

in the shadow of His wings


Suppose this is the silence,

We were promised when we began,

The bottom of the bottle,

Where the dark of night begins


The bottom of the bottle,

Where the dark of night begins


A star burning distant,

Setting in the west,

Staring into the fire,

To forget the days ahead