The first one to leave me, Was Oscar, so young Twenty years, when it killed him He was a bright kid And his words were song in the morning When they all were children In the morning Before it got dark And Daniel left me, My oldest son He was found on the lawn in the city Don't know what I did Or what I should have done In the morning When he still was with me, In the morning Before it got dark Benjamin, that sweetheart I saw him fade His dark eyes could no longer see me Since I saw him dyin' Each night, i prayed for the mornings When they still were dreaming Of morning Before it got dark ... And my mother and all my sons Are no more They left me With many of? I'm tired of living The ghosts of before, I'll be with them, my sons, in the mornin' In the mornin' Before it gets dark