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Do Not Let Your Spirit Wane

Do Not Let Your Spirit Wane lyrics by Gang of Youths. So I have this dream, it comes like twice in a week It’s been so for years and years on repeat And since...

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Do Not Let Your Spirit Wane

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So I have this dream, it comes like twice in a week

It’s been so for years and years on repeat

And since then I’ve not had a full night of sleep

'Cause it plays out the same way

I live with this girl and our kid

I’m as happy as a pig rolled in shit

It’s postcard, I’m settled, a pirate no more

A gypsy at most with no mortgage

It’s boring but in the most exquisite of ways

No carcinogenic and humdrum malaise

And it’s strange, all the things that I’ve run from

Are the things that completeness could come from

So anyways, we’re happy and impossibly so

It’s earth and it’s heaven, all simpatico

Floorboards laid out and the walls painted white

My dream self and I like the same things

They’re all set to leave and I kiss them goodbye

They go and get groceries or something and I

Am drinking alone in the basement

And pray I’m not hallucinating

Do not let this thing you got go to waste

Do not let your heart be dismayed

It’s here by some random disclosure of grace

From some vascular, great thing

Let your life grow strong and sweet to the taste

'Cause the odds are completely insane

Do not let your spirit wane

Do not let your spirit wane

No, no, no, no, no, no

In love, I am careful to mostly reserved

And this dream is a life I don’t think I deserve

My girl and our kid are impossibly bright

And I am just drunk in my basement

See a car, see my girl and look at our kid

Approaching a corner, with rain and a skid

Then a phone call to me from the ICU ward

Sir, I’m so sorry to say this

I’m walking alone through the hospital door

ID their bodies, collapse to the floor

Numb and relentlessly broken

Then I wake up the very next moment

Do not let this thing you got go to waste

Do not let your heart be dismayed

It’s here by some random disclosure of grace

From some vascular, great thing

Do not let this thing you got go to waste

The pain and the beauty, so strange

Do not let your spirit wane

Do not let your spirit wane

Cut me out, take me home

My hands are tired, my legs are broke

And the ruptured chrome plus the deep unknown

Turn my insides out and my head face down

Cut me out, take me home

My hands are tired, my legs are broke

And the ruptured chrome plus the deep unknown

Turn my insides out and my head face down

Do not let this thing you got go to waste

Do not let your heart be dismayed

It’s here by some random disclosure of grace

From some vascular, great thing

Get the fuck out of your head if it says

Stay cold and be deathly afraid

Do not let your spirit wane

Do not let your spirit wane

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