dancer in the dark

[refers to Spike in several episodes of "Buffy"]

you are the dancer in the dark, you are the dancer in the dark

you've been the white shadow behind everybody's fears

a killer without mercy for over hundred years

the only thing important was the lady of your heart

and once you found your true love you would never part

you are the dancer in the dark

those who danced with you were never to survive

mankind was happy meals on legs

you filled the hole inside you with their red, hot blood

dancer in the dark, dancer in the dark

you've always been beneath the woman you adored

sometimes six feet deep, sometimes grovelling on the floor

couldn't see your true strength except through a woman's eyes

tried to fill the emptiness with many women's cries!

you are the dancer in the dark

those who danced with you were never to survive

mankind was happy meals on legs

you filled the hole inside you with their red, hot blood

dancer in the dark, dancer in the dark

at the end of your path you don't hesitate

I'm sure you knew that now you'd meet your fate

did you know you'd die in effulgent light?

your own purgatory, ending endless night

you were the dancer in the dark

effulgent burns your soul now, blazing through the night

it is your love that lit the spark

and for her love you fight and die in the bright light

you are the dancer in the dark