Dear Darkness

"Dear darkness
Dear darkness
Won't you cover, cover me again?
Dear darkness, dear
I've been your friend for many years.

Won't you do this for me, Dearest Darkness
And cover me from the sun
And the words tightening
The words are tightening
Around my throat and, and

Around the throat of the one I love
Tightening, tightening, tightening
Around the throat of the one I love
Tightening, tightening, tightening

Dear Darkness
Dear Darkness
Now it's your time to look after us

Cause we kept your clothes, we kept your business
When everyone else was having good luck

So now it's your time, time to pay
To pay me and the one I love
With the worldly goods you stashed away
With all the things you took from us."

PJ Harvey

I would rather be ashes than dust...

"I would rather
be ashes than dust!
I would rather
that my spark
should burn out
in a brilliant blaze
than it should be
stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be
a superb meteor,
every atom of me
in magnificent glow,
than a sleepy and
permanent planet.
The proper function of man
is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days
in trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time."

Jack London

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