LIGHTEN YOUR DARKNESS Hey, what a gloomy face you show. What a way to say hello. Where's a chuckle; where's a laugh? Life is surely not that tough? You need music, songs and dancing, Love and kindness, sweet romancing. I will lift your melancholy, Bring you gifts and make you jolly. I will cheer you, quell your fears. I will lighten your darkness and dry all your tears. Life's too short to live in sorrow. Throw away yesterday, pick up tomorrow. Let me give you cause to smile. Bring on the honey; away with the bile. I will lift your heavy hearts And send them spinning through the charts Of happiness's calm blue sea. Come on, shake off your misery. Raise the gravestones with your cheers, For I'll lighten your darkness and dry all your tears. Give me your hand and we'll take to the floor, And the pain of your suffering will be no more. Follow my feet and I'll make you to fly. Past is the night and the day is nigh. Drive out the doom-geists who hold you in thrall, Call up the orchestra; let's have a ball. Rid your pallets of black and grey; Bring to your canvas the colours of day, With the gold of the sun as the storm cloud clears. I will lighten your darkness and dry all your tears. From Mary Queen of Scots – The Musical 1988