Not Dark Yet - Jimmy LaFave

Shadows are falling

And I’ve been here all day

It’s too hot to sleep

And time is running away

Feel like my soul has

Turned into steel

I’ve still got the scars

That the sun didn’t heal

There’s not even room enough

To be anywhere

It’s not dark yet

But it’s getting there

Well, my sense of humanity

Has gone down the drain

Behind every beautiful thing

There’s been some kind of pain

She wrote me a letter

And she wrote it so kind

She put down in writing

What was in her mind

I just don’t see why I should even care

It’s not dark yet

But it’s getting there

Well, I’ve been to London

And I’ve been to gay Paris

I’ve followed the river

And I got to the sea

I’ve been down on the bottom

Of a world full of lies

I ain’t looking for nothing

In anyone’s eyes

Sometimes my burden

Is more than I can bear

It’s not dark yet

But it’s getting there

I was born here, and I’ll die here

Against my will

I know it looks like I’m moving

But I’m standing still

Every nerve in my body

Is so vacant and numb

I can’t even remember what it was

I came here to get away from

Don’t even hear a murmur of a prayer

It’s not dark yet

But it’s getting there