Night Comes Closer

(By The Morrigans, from the album "The Morrigan Ride Out")

There's a captain of a ship with a cargo from hell
There's a fear in his eyes and a story to tell
Of the guns turned against him at every land fall
And a voyage that lasted forever.
As he searched without hope for a place he could stay
Like a latter day leper they cast him away
He had nothing to lose so he threw it all away
And the night came closer to his door.

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Listen very hard you can hear it coming
Listen very hard, listen very hard
You can hear it in the sound of the engines running
And the night came closer to his door.
There's oil on the beach where the children play
The smoke from the forests casts a shadow on the day
Hear the hiss of his voice in the aerosol spray
And the night comes closer to our door.

It fell from the sky in a rain of fire
And a small Scottish town became a funeral pyre
And the whole world watched as the flames grew higher
And the night comes closer to their door.
It's a song of hopelessness of anger and despair
We're going too fast and we're going nowhere
And the worst of it is nobody seems to care
And the night comes closer to our door.

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There's a God in his heaven and an angel that fell
But the people in the middle aren't doing very well
There's a change in the weather as the sun goes down
On a night that will last forever.
The song that we sing is a final stand
There's acid in the rain and a blight on the land
The trees they are dying and the whale's on the strand
And the night comes closer to your door.

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