"Queen of the Dark"

Album Art by Chase Stone.

**"Queen of the Dark"** is a song by the American rock band Coheed and Cambria. It is the sixth song on their 2018 album *Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures*.

## Lyrics

**[Verse 1]**

Baby, I will be your falling star

The one that got away, the one you'll be dreaming of

Maybe we have been here once before

The darkness rearranged, you're hitting well below the waist

Wait, just relax

Now, behave, the past is all you have

**[Chorus]**

All hurt in time gets better

When the truth came out, you were born to run

When the lights went out, there was no one

A ghost to haunt for closure

When the lights went out, there was no one

When the lights went out, there was no... Queen of the Dark

Queen of the Dark, Queen of the Dark, Queen of the Dark

**[Verse 2]**

Maybe things could be just like before

No more that I can say before the world awakes again

Is this everything you hoped for?

Lost in the lines between, the darkness found its queen

**[Chorus]**

All hurt in time gets better

When the truth came out, you were born to run

When the lights went out, there was no one

A ghost to haunt for closure

When the lights went out, there was no one

When the lights went, when the lights went out

**[Bridge]**

Queen of the Dark

Queen of the Dark, Queen of the Dark, oh

Queen of the Dark, Queen of the Dark, oh

**[Chorus]**

All hurt in time gets better

When the truth came out, you were born to run

When the lights went out, there was no one

A ghost to haunt for closure

When the lights went out, there was no one

When the lights went out, there was no... Queen of the Dark

Queen of the Dark, Queen of the Dark, Queen of the Dark

Queen of the Dark, Queen of the Dark, Queen of the Dark

Queen of the Dark

## Story Context

Now we take a look at things from Nia's perspective. Verse 1 starts with "Baby, I will be your falling star / The one that got away, the one you'll be dreaming of" which is Nia saying, "We're done; I won't take you back, so you can keep dreaming." "Maybe we have been here once before / The darkness rearranged, you're hitting well below the waist" is her saying that the situation isn't fair. So what that they argued before and almost broke up then? This time is different; he might as well have kicked her where the sun don't shine with how bad she views his actions. "Wait, just relax / Now, behave, the past is all you are" is almost a direct quote from what she says in the novella.

The chorus is her lament at how the events unfolded. Starting with "All hurt in time gets better," the following event described are hurts of hers that will, presumably, get better. "When the truth came out, you were born to run" refers to the first time Nos lied to her, which was prior to her joining his gang, The Unheavenly Creatures. "When the lights went out, there was no one" refers to when she was killed, and he'd left her to die. "A ghost to haunt for closure" is her stance on the last situation: she'd rather just become a ghost that haunted him then learn the truth since she's afraid the truth is that he really did leave her. And of course, it concludes with the song title, which of course, refers to what she became: The Glass Widow.

In Verse 2, we see how she thinks upon actually confronting Nos's reappearance. "Maybe things could be just like before / No more that I can say before the world awakes again" is her admitting she hopes they can go back to how they were, but in the second line, she wakes herself up to the reality of world around them: she isn't allowed to break the character she's now adopted because of her contract with The Warden. "Is this everything you hoped for? / Lost in the lines between, the darkness found its queen" is her being able to read his thoughts and heart on his sleeve and wondering if this is what he expected to find; she's changed, she's one with the dark. Lost to the original world.

## References

1. ↑ Coheed and Cambria. Booklet. *Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures*, RoadRunner Records, 2018.
2. ↑ https://genius.com/Coheed-and-cambria-queen-of-the-dark-lyrics