Texty: Josh Ritter. So Runs the World Away. Lantern.

Give me light for my lantern
Give me light for my lantern give me light
Be the light of my lantern, the light of my lantern, be the light
I need the light in my lantern, light in my lantern tonight

Ita??s a hungry world out there
Even the wind will take a bite
I can feel the world circling
Sniffing round me in the night
And the lost sheep grow teeth
Forsake the lambs and lie with the lions

Where the living is desperate
Precarious and mean
And getting by is so hard
That even the rocks are picked clean
And the bones of small contention
Are the only food the hungry find

Where the thistles eat the thorns
And the roses have no chance
And it no wonder that the babies
Come out crying in advance
And the children look for shelter
In the hollow of some lonesome cheek

And the skya??s so cold and clear
The stars might stick you stand
And youa??re only glad its dark cause
You might see the mastera??s hand
And you might cast around forever
And never find the peace that you seek

For every cry in the night

Somebody says, a??Have faith!a??
a??Be content inside your questionsa??
a??Minotaurs inside a mazea??
Tell me whata??s the point of light
When you have to strike a match to find?

So throw away those lamentations
We both know them all too well
If therea??s a book of jubilations
Wea??ll have to write it for ourselves
So come and lie beside me darling
And leta??s write it while we still got time

So if you got a light, hold it high for me
I need it bad tonight, hold it high for me
Cause Ia??m face to face, hold it high for me
In that lonesome place, hold it high for me
With all the hurt that Ia??ve done, hold it high for me
That cana??t be undone, hold it high for me
Light and guide me through, hold it high for me
And Ia??ll do the same for you, hold it high for me

Ia??ll hold it high for you, cause I know youa??ve got
Ia??ll hold it high for you, your own valley to walk
Ia??ll hold it high for you, though ita??s dark as death
Ia??ll hold it high for you, and then gets darker yet
Ia??ll hold it high for you, though your path is blocked
Ia??ll hold it high for you, through the thieves and rocks
Ia??ll hold it high for you, keep you safe from harm
Ia??ll hold it high for you, until youa??re back in my arms