It was a cold dark night when the angels came Held my mother's hand and they called her name It's a brand new world now that she's gone See the fire of her colors in the brand new dawn I'll hold to the string between the dark and the light I'll wait for the someday, for the beautiful sight One dance through the door, one gone in the night Say goodbye to the dark, say hello to the light There's a world of pain, there's a world of tears There's also a time when the pain disappears The reunion waits like a brand new dawn Let the sun come up, let the pain be gone I'll hold to the string between the dark and the light I'll wait for the someday, for the beautiful sight One dance through the door, one gone in the night Say goodbye to the dark, say hello to the light There are stories unwritten, there are songs to be sung In the eyes of the old, in the cries of the young I'm moved by the faces of those who came before me Take me off to their places, tell me their stories I'll hold to the string between the dark and the light I'll wait for the someday, for the beautiful sight One dance through the door, one gone in the night Say goodbye to the dark, say hello to the light