Goodnight
How can you sleep?
How can you sleep through this?
What are your thoughts?
As you turn to dream?
I wouldn't know
I never look
These things are hard
These things can hurt
All of the secrets
Nobody needs to know
How does it feel?

Falling asleep so hard
How could ask?
How could I say?

The things I need to
You'd go away
Goodnight
Memory must
Fill you with love
Positive days
Positive years
Older than lonely
Older than old
There's only minutes
Minutes to go
You have to feel this
You have to cry

I can go on
I can deny
This stuff it hurts
Always it will
Now I can ask
Now I can say
The things I need to
You've gone away
Goodnight


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The Darkest Night of All Lyrics as written by Lisa Germano

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    General Comment

    This song to me is the night my father passed away. A gift of music that despite the sadness of that night shed's light on the memory of the worst day of my life. This is one of those "soundtrack to your life" moments for me. "Memory must...fill you with love...positive days...positive years..." I see the hallway to the hospital in the middle of the night - there waiting - and I hear the background music behind Lisa's voice. I said goodbye that night, but Lisa's music makes it bearable to hear. "This stuff it hurts...always it will...you've gone away...goodnight(dad)"

    tsma120on May 16, 2012   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    i can never rest till a problem is solved.

    whiskeyfairyon March 28, 2005   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    I love how she says goodnight at the beginning, middle, and end. I don't know, but it just sounds kind of nice. :)

    jenni adrenochrome.on May 08, 2009   Link
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    My Interpretation

    I've always thought of this song as if it's sung while she lies in bed next to her partner, who's sleeping, and she's going thru the process of deciding the relationship is finished as she cant really ever connect with that person because they're never truly emotionally available when she needs it.

    benjimouseon May 13, 2022   Link

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