In the dark, I slept there.
I slept where I had no care.
In the dark, that's where I was.
Warm and quiet and peaceful.

In the dark there was no despair.
In the dark I grew my hair.
In the dark I ate my food
without needing to chew.

But all good things they must end
even for you and me, my friend.
Ejected from paradise
in to the screaming light.

Darkness it must come to end
returning only briefly.
Darkness it was my first friend
and she greets me sweetly.

Feasting only on the dark
knowing naught what it might be
Feasting only in the dark
with my mother nourishing me.

I heard her voice though muffled then.
She sang to me so sweetly. 
In the dark of my first home
I miss it oh, so deeply.

I knew never hunger there
and I did not wear underwear.
Growing slowly deep within
Knowing only deep peace.

Growing slowly over time
Single cells dividing, mine.
Knowing only sweetness then.
Growing oh, so deeply.

Life was so much simpler then.
Knowing naught what might be hence.
Feeling oh so deep within.
Growing oh, so sweetly.

Why do I perchance to cry.
Thinking oh, so sweetly. 
I sit and think of lullabyes
Pining oh, so gently.

- [ humming bridge ] -

Knowing love forever then
Knowing only peace within.
Growing oh, so long and then
Knowing only sweet things.

I sit here now and wonder when,
I might know such deep peace. 
Knowing only sweet within.
I might go completely.