Blackness of the Night - Yusuf Islam

In the blackness of the night

I seem to wander endlessly

with a hope burning out deep inside

I m a fugitive, community has driven me out

For this bad, bad world I m beginning to doubt

I m alone and there is no one by my side

In the blackness of the night

I see a shadow passing by from the heels of an old soldier boy.

There s no comprimising

and his eyes are black as the sky

For this bad, bad world he is going to die.

He s alone and there is no one by his side

In the blackness of the night

I see a sparkle of a star

from the sweet silver tear of a child

and she s clutching at a photograph of long, long ago

When her parents were happy she was too young to know

she s alone and there is no one by her side

I m alone and there is no one by my side

In the blackness of the night

I seem to wander endlessly

with a hope burning out deep inside

I m a fugitive, community has driven me out

For this bad, bad world I m beginning to doubt

I m alone, and there is no one by my side