The Edge Of Darkness

Album: The X Factor (1995)
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  • I've looked into the heart of darkness
    Where the blood red journey ends
    When you've faced the heart of darkness
    Even your soul begins to bend

    For a week I have been waiting
    Still I am only in Saigon
    The walls move in a little closer
    I feel the jungle call me on

    Every minute I get weaker
    While in the jungle they grow strong
    What I wanted was a mission
    And for my sins they gave me one

    They brought it up just like room service
    'Cause everyone gets what they want
    And when that mission was all over
    I'd never want another one
    Oh oh oh

    I know Captain that you've done this work before
    We've got a problem you can help us I am sure
    The Colonel's gone rogue
    And his methods are unsound
    You'll take a PBR up river, track him down

    There's a conflict in every human heart
    And the temptation is to take it all too far
    In this war things get so confused
    But there are some things which cannot be excused

    He's acting like a God, an insane lunatic
    Your mission, terminate with extreme prejudice
    Your route is dangerous and your progress may be slow
    Here is the file and it's all you need to know
    Oh oh oh, oh oh oh

    Here I am the knife in my hand
    And now I understand why the genius must die

    Now I stand alone in darkness
    With his blood upon my hands
    Where sat the warrior, the poet
    Now lie the fragments of a man

    I've looked into the heart of darkness
    Where the blood red journey ends
    When you've faced the heart of darkness
    Even your soul begins to bend
    I've looked into the heart of darkness Writer/s: Bayley Cooke, Janick Gers, Stephen Percy Harris
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
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