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
