Now it's your time to look after us
Tightening, tightening, tightening
Dear darkness, dear
And though the words tightening
Won't you do this for me, dearest darkness?
When everyone else was having good luck
With all the things you took from us
I've been your friend for many years
Tightening, tightening, tightening

So now it's your time, time to pay
Around the throat of the one I love

Around the throat of the one I love
And cover me from the sun

With the worldly goods you stashed away
Dear darkness, dear darkness
The words are tightening around my throat and, and
To pay me and the one I love
‘Cause we kept your clothes, we kept your business