This song was encouraged by the writing or Rainer Maria Rilke and you may pick up echoes of his writing in the lyrics. We all spend time in the dark hours of our being – more or less comfortably. And many of us have carelessly lost love, which is what this song is about. Anna Ling is providing beautiful backing vocals and guitar. I have added some mandolin.

Between the sorrow and the songs

Tom Ling with lines from Rainer Maria Rilke (The book of hours)

Every time you left
A part of me went with you
Words that once had meaning 
Have turned to ashes in our mouths

Chorus
We were lost between
The sorrows and the songs
In dark hours of our being
Where love lost carelessly belongs

If words are the currency of love
But we've both ran out of credit
Words are worth what they will fetch
We were trading in unpaid debts

Among the sorrows and the songs
But in words so soft, so subdued,
Our love will always linger
Where dark hours can’t intrude