Seems to be the foulest on Earth Yet the sun skims the sky In shadows I dwell, bound in my chains In the silken divine, but darkened depths Kept on descending; I don't know where I've been How am I to know? It was too dark to see An angel could save me Bring me back from this despair But there was never one there Reached the bottom of the pit Consumed in those brisk, black waters Caught from each rainy afternoon So few remembered in those chasms So many were there, so many Deceased lie in regiments cascading to the ground So solemn are their vows before they reach the final stair You're going up now? What could ever be up there? We are standing in tomorrow's murky past Come and laugh, Let's all laugh Stand alone, all together now Kept on descending and I don't know where I've been How could I have known? It was too dark to see. Can you save me from this overwhelming be the foulest on Earth Yet the sun skims the sky In shadows I dwell, bound in my chains In the silken divine, but darkened depths Kept on descending; I don't know where I've been How am I to know? It was too dark to see An angel could save me Bring me back from this despair But there was never one there Reached the bottom of the pit Consumed in those brisk, black waters Caught from each rainy afternoon So few remembered in those chasms So many were there, so many Deceased lie in regiments cascading to the ground So solemn are their vows before they reach the final stair You're going up now? What could ever be up there? We are standing in tomorrow's murky past Come and laugh, Let's all laugh Stand alone, all together now Kept on descending and I don't know where I've been How could I have know