When the lights finally switch off
And night swallows it a-whole
Hold the monsters off, My darling
And never fall into the hole

When they claw into your heart
And thrash it onto unforgiving floor
Smudge yourself with the earth of the hearth
And yell, "Nevermore, Nevermore!"

For the primal beast inside calls
for even the dimmest light of justice
While the rage inside roars like the falls
Held back by the heart's dark crevice

But remember my lonely child
Though the brusque always seem to win
The final victor is never the wild
But in one of the patient kin