Arlo Gunthrie Darkest Hour Lyrics

Darkest Hour Lyrics

It's the tenth of January 

 And I still ain't had no sleep 

 She comes waItzing in the nighttime 

 Made of wings 

 She is dressed up like a bandit 

 With a hundred sparkling rings 

 Looking for my company to keep 

 Coming closer to me 

 She doesn't say a word 

 In the shadow of the carved rock tower 

 Where the sounds of the night 

 Were the only things we heard 

 In my darkest hour 

  

 She don't want to hear no secrets 

 She would guarantee me that 

 She knows there ain't no words 

 That can describe her 

 With her white silk scarves 

 And her black Spanish hat 

 She knows there ain't no way I can deny her 

 Yes her blue velvet perfume 

 Filling up the night 

 The guards are all asleep 

 That watch the tower 

 The moon light held her breast 

 As she easily undressed 

 In my darkest hour 

  

 Her father's in his chambers with his 

 Friends all gathered 'round 

 They are plotting their enemy's demise 

 With their last detail done 

 They await the coming sun 

 While I am staring in my lover's eyes 

 Her brothers and her sisters 

 Are all through for tonight 

 Pretending that they've just 

 Come into power 

 But she far most of all, knows that they 

 Can only fall 

 In my darkest hour 

  

 Hungry wings; their melodies 

 While my love awakens me 

 In the midst of the sunburst first light 

 Her hands are holding up the skies 

 As I hid my opened eyes 

 Every move just for herself 

 And that's so right 

 Soon I went along my way 

 With no words that could explain 

 As she began descending to the tower 

 Her safety now concerns me 

 Her circumstance to blame 

 In my darkest hour