Dark Night of the Soul

• Romantics & Mystics, Solace for Seasons of Suffering, Song Lyrics, The Symphony Sessions

  Posted on June 4th, 2007

  Written by Faye

           

  Dark Night of the Soul – Music and Lyric by Steve Bell
  adapted from the poem The Dark Night by St. John of the Cross

  Into the darkest night
  With a heartache kindled into love
  I took a chance
  When at last I went out unobserved
  My house being wrapped in sleep

   The hour made secure
  And concealed the flight to my beloved
  I took a chance
  And left familiar treasures well behind
  Too far for comforting

  I went out by myself
  Seen by no one else
  A somewhat reckless journey from the start
  Pressing through the night
  Without light or guide
  Save the fire that consumed my heart

  I bless the starless night
  A night by far more lovely than the dawn
  Oh happy chance
  To discover in the barren dark
  The one I knew so well

  And there with my love I rested
  Fanned by a cooling wind
  Wounded by love’s caresses
  Suspending all my senses
  Bless this happy night
  That unites the lover and the loved
  Oh happy chance
  To abandon every wretched care
  Among the lilies there

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• marilynn Posted on January 22nd

  bless you for writing this song: it so blesses me just now. every morning i wake with a new line from it that God is making real to my heart, my journey… it is God’s word to me just now and is getting me through a dark time in my life… so thank you so very much! marilynn

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