La Dispute - The Last Lost Continent lyrics

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I felt your sickness brush against my arm as I walked by you —<br />

Heard your voice but couldn't tell that it was you.<br />

And, slowly, watched your sickness slip away into a place<br />

That I'd once feared but I was not afraid this time<br />

So I gave chase and found it, finally, slowly feeding from your head, <br />

And from my friends, and from my family, so I grabbed it by the neck.<br />

"For every lover you have ruined..." I dug my nails into it's flesh.<br />

"... and every life that you have taken..."<br />

Slammed it's head against the brick.<br />

It's blood poured out onto the pavement, <br />

I stirred it in with dirt and spit, <br />

"I will take a part of you."<br />

I made mortar from the mix.<br />

Tore every organ from it's body, <br />

Broke it's bone and fashioned bricks, <br />

I laid the mortar in between, <br />

I made a throne for hope to sit.<br />

"Too long you've torn us into pieces, <br />

Firmly held onto our wrists. Today I bury you in me."<br />

I swallowed every inch of it.<br />

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I'll hold you, as you have held me -<br />

You've held me in your heart, we'll be set free from fear.<br />

We've felt our failures.<br />

We've watched our passions leave, but we're still breathing on.<br />

I'll hold you, as you have held me, <br />

You've held me in your heart.<br />

(And I will hold you in my heart)<br />

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But I still see him dead in the parking lot at the gas station just down the street.<br />

And I still hear my friend say, <br />

"You know, you wouldn't believe the things I saw when I was stationed overseas."<br />

But he somehow keeps smiling in spite all of that, <br />

While I keep finding ways to push the good out for the bad<br />

Oh, how selfish of myself to always say that it was more than I could take, <br />

Like it was pain I could not shake, <br />

Like it could break me with it's fingers, throw my body in the lake, <br />

And I would slowly sink away<br />

But the Truth is it was sorrow that I made and would not face.<br />

See, I keep falling for the future after tripping on the past.<br />

And I am always tearing sutures out to make the anguish last like it defines me.<br />

Or reminds me I've found comfort in my suffering<br />

And uncertainty in happiness and death, <br />

Because what's next is such a mystery to me.<br />

I am terrified of all the things I feel but cannot see.<br />

Friends and family, put your hand into my hand and lay your head into my chest.<br />

You are all that I have left here<br />

We are all that we have left.<br />

We are the lovers, We are the last of our kind.<br />

Link your arms and keep your chin up<br />

And I swear that we'll be fine.<br />

We are the lovers, We are the last of our kind.<br />

Though we're not sure who we are, though we're not sure where we're from, <br />

Though we're not sure when we'll leave, though we're not sure where we'll go, <br />

We keep our heads up<br />

We keep our hearts up<br />

We keep our hopes up<br />

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Keep your head up. we're fine. Just keep your head up. I swear we'll be alright.<br />

Keep your head up. Oh, my friends, keep your head up. and I swear we'll never die.<br />

I swear we'll get home safe and sound, we'll live on underground<br />

I will give your heart a place to rest when everything you had has turned and left.<br />

I'll weave your names into my ribcage; lock your hearts inside my chest.<br />

Regain the passion I once carried; do away with all the rest.<br />

I tore the sickness from your bodies; smashed it's head against the bricks.<br />

I made a castle from it's bones that you may always dwell in it.<br />

So sing for every buried moment that you'd thought would never end.<br />

And sing your fears about the future; and a dirge for faded friends.<br />

For all the love that you had held to, why it somehow failed to keep.<br />

And sing each minute you've been frightened; every hour that you've lost sleep<br />

And sing for all your friends and family; sing for those who didn't survive.<br />

But sing not for their final outcome; sing a song of how they tried.<br />

We live amidst a violent storm; leaves us unsatisfied at best, <br />

So fill your heart with what's important, and be done with all the rest.<br />

We are what's left of what we once were<br />

We are falling far behind.<br />

There's so much stacking up against us and we're running out of time.<br />

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We are but hopeful children, and we're the last of our kind.<br />

But if we let our hearts move outward, I know we will never-<br />

We are but friends and family, we are the last of our kind.<br />

So hold my hand, I'll lift your head up, and I promise we'll be fine.<br />

We are but hopeful lovers, and we are running out of time.<br />

There's so much stacking up against us, and we're falling far behind.<br />

We are but hopeful lovers, we are the last of our kind, <br />

But if we let our hearts move outward, I know we will never-<br />

We are but lovers, we are the last of our kind.<br />

And if we let our hearts move outward, I know we will never-<br />

We are but lovers, we are the last of our kind.<br />

And if we let our hearts move outward, we will never die.