Darkness is a Harsh Term, Don't You Think?

It may be someone else's mediocre video, but this is Mumford and Sons singing "Roll Away Your Stone" at the Ryman Auditorium during one of their three shows in Nashville this week. We can talk about the best Ryman shows ever at a later time. But I want you to soak up this song and see how it unexpectedly brought me to that strange point where you're simultaneously wiping away the fast tears and dancing in the aisles.

Roll away your stone, I'll roll away mine
Together we can see what we can find
Don't leave me alone at this time
For I'm afraid of what I will discover inside.

'Cause you told me that I would find a hole
Within the fragile substance of my soul
And I have filled this void with things unreal
And all the while, my character, it steals.

But darkness is a harsh term, don't you think?
And yet it dominates the things I see.

It seems that all my bridges have been burned,
But you say that's exactly how this grace thing works.
It's not the long walk home that will change this heart,
But the welcome I receive with the restart.

Well darkness is a harsh term, don't you think?
And yet it dominates the things I see.
And darkness is a harsh term, don't you think?
And yet it dominates the things I see.

Stars hide your fires, these here are my desires.
And I will give them up to you this time around.
And so I'll be found with my stake stuck in this ground
Marking the territory of this newly impassioned soul.

But you, you've gone too far this time
You have neither reason nor rhyme
With which to take this soul that is so rightfully mine.