A Boy In Darkness Lyrics

	Part 1: Brookbottom Colliery, Heanor, Derbyshire, 1842
	Extract from Sub Commissioner’s report, 1842 on the conditions of children and young people employed in the collieries.
	“His name is Godfrey Fletcher
	Eleven years old
	Worked these pits for nearly three years
	Does not know the alphabet
	Cannot read in the least”
	The pit shall keep him body and soul
	But better that than going to school
	Or ploughing the field
	Hot as any fire and brimstone Methodist’s sermon down here
	In the awesome stillness
	of the deep black
	A Boy in Darkness
	The seam they work is more than a yard
	The headway here is nearly four feet
	He hears the eerie sound of the whistling wind
	Deep down here in the dry and the heat
	A Boy in Darkness
	Part 2: The March of Progress, Enlightenment and the Passing of Time
	Part 3: Present Times
	Once upon a time
	A secret shared
	Threatened not to breathe a word
	To a living soul
	Especially mother...
	He was just a boy
	But even though
	It wasn’t the way it’s supposed to go
	Needed a father
	Not this hunter
	To speak of the unspeakable
	Takes guts and nerve
	It’s going to disturb
	He can’t bring himself to say the words
	Misplaced blind faith
	In church and state
	Tied up in too much red tape
	If help comes, pray not too late
	We face ourselves
	Look long and hard
	Make the difference
	A safer place
	But most of all
	Don’t be afraid
	To shine
	Light
	Into the dark
	A Boy in Darkness

	Part 1: Brookbottom Colliery, Heanor, Derbyshire, 1842
	Extract from Sub Commissioner' s report, 1842 on the conditions of children and young people employed in the collieries.
	" His name is Godfrey Fletcher
	Eleven years old
	Worked these pits for nearly three years
	Does not know the alphabet
	Cannot read in the least"
	The pit shall keep him body and soul
	But better that than going to school
	Or ploughing the field
	Hot as any fire and brimstone Methodist' s sermon down here
	In the awesome stillness
	of the deep black
	A Boy in Darkness
	The seam they work is more than a yard
	The headway here is nearly four feet
	He hears the eerie sound of the whistling wind
	Deep down here in the dry and the heat
	A Boy in Darkness
	Part 2: The March of Progress, Enlightenment and the Passing of Time
	Part 3: Present Times
	Once upon a time
	A secret shared
	Threatened not to breathe a word
	To a living soul
	Especially mother...
	He was just a boy
	But even though
	It wasn' t the way it' s supposed to go
	Needed a father
	Not this hunter
	To speak of the unspeakable
	Takes guts and nerve
	It' s going to disturb
	He can' t bring himself to say the words
	Misplaced blind faith
	In church and state
	Tied up in too much red tape
	If help comes, pray not too late
	We face ourselves
	Look long and hard
	Make the difference
	A safer place
	But most of all
	Don' t be afraid
	To shine
	Light
	Into the dark
	A Boy in Darkness

	Part 1: Brookbottom Colliery, Heanor, Derbyshire, 1842
	Extract from Sub Commissioner' s report, 1842 on the conditions of children and young people employed in the collieries.
	" His name is Godfrey Fletcher
	Eleven years old
	Worked these pits for nearly three years
	Does not know the alphabet
	Cannot read in the least"
	The pit shall keep him body and soul
	But better that than going to school
	Or ploughing the field
	Hot as any fire and brimstone Methodist' s sermon down here
	In the awesome stillness
	of the deep black
	A Boy in Darkness
	The seam they work is more than a yard
	The headway here is nearly four feet
	He hears the eerie sound of the whistling wind
	Deep down here in the dry and the heat
	A Boy in Darkness
	Part 2: The March of Progress, Enlightenment and the Passing of Time
	Part 3: Present Times
	Once upon a time
	A secret shared
	Threatened not to breathe a word
	To a living soul
	Especially mother...
	He was just a boy
	But even though
	It wasn' t the way it' s supposed to go
	Needed a father
	Not this hunter
	To speak of the unspeakable
	Takes guts and nerve
	It' s going to disturb
	He can' t bring himself to say the words
	Misplaced blind faith
	In church and state
	Tied up in too much red tape
	If help comes, pray not too late
	We face ourselves
	Look long and hard
	Make the difference
	A safer place
	But most of all
	Don' t be afraid
	To shine
	Light
	Into the dark
	A Boy in Darkness

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