Broken Night

I'm watching the gray velvet of the night It's eating up the walls of my neighborhood It's taking the windows, it's taking their light It's eating up the doors and the sidewalks too It's taking the church and the houses around It's taking the people inside too It's stealing their prayers and hallelujahs And they don't know, they don't even know Like a shadow that can not be seen but smelled That your body remembers but your mind forgot It's not all dark yet but your light is raped And it snows now, like ashes, fallen pieces of a broken god It swallows the men and their halos with Hollows them out as they sleep It's taking their prayers and hallelujahs And they don't know, they don't even know