Our share of night to bear (113)

Song Meaning

The lyrics paint a stark, cyclical picture of existence, framing life as a balance between light and darkness. It opens with a sense of shared burden and potential, presenting "our share of night to bear" alongside "our share of morning." This immediately establishes a duality, suggesting that hardship and hope are intertwined, equally distributed parts of the human experience. The idea of a "blank in bliss to fill" and a "blank in scorning" further emphasizes this, implying that both joy and contempt are voids waiting to be occupied by our actions or circumstances.