My Candle Burns

You cried last night in your sleep

Close my arms 'round you when you weep

Archangel on wings of the night

Keeps you safe 'til the kiss of the light

The hour is dark before the dawn

And so the lull before the storm

A world full of people alone

But I found a love of my own

My candle burns at both ends

It will not last the night

But ah my foes and oh my friends

It gives a lovely light

Soft voices whispering to me

From the sad heaving breast of the sea

As I stand in a pale light again

A moth clinging desperately to his flame

The hour is dark before the dawn

And so the lull before the storm

A world full of people alone

I cling to a flame of my own

My candle burns at both ends

It will not last the night

But ah my foes and oh my friends

It gives a lovely light