Keeping Advent: Well of Sorrow

Lucy's Latin name Lucia shares a root (luc-) with the Latin word for light, lux. A number of traditions incorporate symbolic meaning of St. Lucy as the bearer of light in the darkness of winter, her feast day being December 13. 


Well of Sorrow
Chris Cunningham and John Hermanson

Come, Lucia, to the light
Open windows on the brightening snow
And make it through the longest night
A crown of candles for your head tomorrow
Ooh, ooh
I fell in your well of sorrow

You were radiant all in white arrayed
Blonde braided hair and burnin' flame halo
But I saw through the whole charade
Your red sash and your robe of white were borrowed
Ooh, ooh
And I fell in your well of sorrow

Come, Lucia, to the light
Open windows on the brightening snow
And rage against the coming night
But don't let go of love that grows in shadow
Ooh, ooh
I fell in your well of sorrow

Ooh, ooh
And I fell in your well of sorrow

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