A black wave is coming

A black wave will fall

Touch your trembling lips to your pale fingertips

A black wave doth call

So where do you go my lover

And where do you go my friend

When every face you know and every low road

They have all become dark and dim

A black wave is coming

A black wave will fall

Touch your trembling lips to your pale fingertips

A black wave doth call

So what do you see my darling

And what do you see my dear

I can't tell

I can't tell in the wild wood a spell

And the clouds forsake the sky here

So what do you see my lover

And what do you see my friend

I don't know

I don't know at midnight comes a snow

I can't see

But I hear a little hymn

I can't see

But I hear a little hymn