Chris Sand

Lyrics

Darkest day of the year / Darkest day in a lifetime of fear / It’s hard to tell that you’re near / I’m scared to think that I just might find you here / In the time of my power outage / I was a coward, read all about it / In the lines of my worried forehead / The words that I spoke had all been pre-recorded // Darkest day of the year / Darkest day in a lifetime of dumb / I drone on and on and on and on / And on and on . . . my whole body feels numb / Don’t tell me that I’ve been castrated / I’d rather cut myself than to face the truth / I’d rather bomb a third-world country / Than look in the mirror, now ain’t that something? // Hey, hey, darkest day of the year / Darkest day of the year / Darkest day (darkest day) Darkest hour (darkest hour) / Dark night of the soul: BLACK POWER // Longest night of my life / Shortest fuse, the warden whispers /You ain’t going’ nowhere, Boy / You’re ass is a permanent fixture here / In the case of a power outage / The whole world will read all about us / In the pages of The New York Times / How we mastered the Standing 69 // Hey, hey, darkest day of the year / Darkest day of the year / Darkest day (darkest day) Darkest hour (darkest hour) / Dark night of the soul: WOMAN POWER // Weirdest year of my life / Strangest dreams, the demons stoke the flames / Satan please remove your spoon of shame / Or else remain and poke my veins / False kings and cowboys cower / At Standing Rock the shepherds showered / Gifts upon the sacred water / God save our sons and daughters // Darkest day of the year / Darkest day of the year / Darkest day (darkest day) Darkest hour (darkest hour) / Dark night of the soul: NATIVE POWER // (Foreshadow’s rap): Native Power, yeah, yeah, Red Power / Rain showers lead to sunflowers / That’s real power, no need for gunpowder / They disrespect youth and old people, too / It’s uncouth, Foreshadow / I’m an agent of truth, yeah / Blind men gain sight without warning / Dark nights lead to the bright morning // Electric power, mighty power, world power, earth power / Universal power, rainbow power / Me power, you power / Us power /// Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (from his final sermon on the night of April 3, 1968, at the Bishop Charles Mason Temple in Memphis, TN): “Now that's a strange statement to make, because the world is all messed up. The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land. Confusion all around. That's a strange statement. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.”