Peace came running, like she come before But there's no mercy knocking at my door In the quiet of the evening, come battle and bruise With the armor of day light, now removed You can ready your horses, you can put up a fight But you can't turn off the night Homesick water finds a resting place Stillness survives in a hurricane With the storm coming on, they tell us to pray So we're down on our knees every day All of us searching for someplace to hide 'Cause you can't turn off the night Static, all this static flying round and round Like a record caught in the grooves after the song's played out Drums sit empty when the hit is done Music lets go after notes are sung But oh, here we are awake in our beds On the seams of regret, we're pulling at threads We try and we try to make dark into light But you can't turn off the night