When shadows fall and sunlight breaks,
What Nightfall touches, Nightfall takes,
Lives and silver, maids in bows-
Darkness comes where Nightfall goes.
A demon cruel; a monster stark,
Grim moonlight, coldness, deepest dark,
Nightmares come to those who doze-
Darkness comes where Nightfall goes.
Nightfall laughs, and death's axe falls.
Hell opens wide and swallows all.
He rules the depths where no light shows-
Darkness comes where Nightfall goes.
Lock up your children after dark,
Lest Nightfall find an easy mark.
For safety ends at twilight's close-
And darkness comes where Nightfall goes.
Razor claws and fiery eyes,
Leathern wings to cleave the skies.
His soul within stark midnight froze-
Darkness comes where Nightfall goes.
Those who brave the night will find.
Horror, dread, and demon kind.
He slays them all and rends their souls
Darkness comes where Nightfall goes.
Birthed within the black abyss,
His silent gift, a deadly kiss.
Gone before the rooster crows-
Darkness comes where Nightfall goes.
Counting years like grains of sand,
Countless fall beneath his hand.
Time, his minion; night, his clothes-
Darkness comes where Nightfall goes.
Where Nightfall walks, all virtue dies.
He weaves a trail of pain and lies.
On mankind heaps his vilest woes-
Darkness comes where Nightfall goes.
Wolves and bats and beasts of night,
Spirits black that flee the light,
Cringed in fear when he arose-
Darkness comes where Nightfall goes.
He feeds on elders and children,
On soldiers, kins, and beggarmen.
He never stops and never slows-
Darkness comes where Nightfall goes.
The Evil One, the demon blight
Who hides in day and stalks the night.
He steals the stars and drags them low-
Darkness comes where Nightfall goes.
- Alternate Verses -
Three kings and their armies rode
To hunt the demon in the cold;
But where they've gone, no mortal knows-
Darkness comes where Nightfall goes.
A dragon laughed at Nightfall's fame,
Rained curses on the demon's name;
The dragons bones now lie in rows-
Darkness comes where Nightfall goes.
A wizard hoped to slay the beast.
He conjured up a poisoned feast.
The demon fed him to the crows-
Darkness comes where Nightfall goes.
A gambler bet the tales were lies
And scorned the wisdom of the wise
The odds were not the ones he chose-
Darkness comes where Nightfall goes.
Six princes fought him in the night,
Their fortress of unequaled might.
'Twas gone before the sun arose-
Darkness comes where Nightfall goes.
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