The Last Lost Continent

I felt your sickness brush against my arm as I walked by you,

Heard your voice but couldn't tell that it was you.

And slowly watched your sickness slip away

Into a place that I'd once feared,

But I was not afraid this time.

So I gave chase and found it finally,

Slowly feeding from your head.

And from my friends and from my family,

So I grabbed it by the neck.

"For every lover you have ruined..."

I dug my nails into its flesh,

"And every life that you have taken..."

Slammed it's head against the brick.

It's blood poured out onto the pavement,

I stirred it in with dirt and spit.

"I will take a part of you.",

I made mortar from the mix.

Tore every organ from its body,

Broke it's bone and fashioned bricks,

I laid the mortar in between.

I made a throne for hope to sit.

"Too long you've torn us into pieces,

Firmly held onto our wrists.

Today I buried you in me"

I swallowed every inch of it.

I'll hold you as you have held me

You've held me in your heart

We'll be, we'll be set free from

We'll be set free from fear

We'll be set free

We've felt our failures

We've watched our passions leave

But we're still breathing on

We're still breathing on

I'll hold you as you have held me

You've held me in your heart

And I will hold you in my heart

But I still see him dead in the parking lot

At the gas station just down the street

And I still hear my friend say

"You know, you wouldn't believe the things I saw when I was stationed overseas"

But he somehow keeps smiling in spite of all of that,

While I keep finding ways to push the good out for the bad.

Oh, how selfish of myself

To always say that it was more than I could take,

Like it was pain I couldn't shake,

Like it could break me with its fingers,

Throw my body in the lake and I would slowly sink away.

But the truth is, it was sorrow that I made and wouldn't face.

See, I keep falling for the future after tripping on the past

And I am always tearing sutures out to make the anguish last

Like it defines me or reminds me

I've found comfort in my suffering

And uncertainty in happiness and death

Because what's next is such a mystery to me,

And I am terrified of all the things I feel but cannot see.

Friends and family,

Put your hand into my hand and lay your head into my chest,

You are all that I have left here.

We are all that we have left.

We are the lovers

We are the last of our kind

So link your arms and keep your chin up

And I swear that we'll be fine

We are the lovers

We are the last of our kind

Though we are not sure who we are

We keep our heads up

Though we are not sure where we're from

We keep our hearts up

Though we are not sure when we'll leave

We keep our heads up

Though we are not sure where we'll go

We keep our hopes up

Though we're not sure who we are

We keep our heads up

Though we're not sure where we're from

We keep our hearts up

Though we're not sure when we'll leave

We keep our heads up

Though we're not sure where we'll go

We keep our hopes up

Keep your head up

We're fine

Just keep your head up

I swear we'll be alright

Keep your head up

My friends, my friends

Keep your head up, I swear

I swear we'll never die

I swear we'll get home safe and sound

I swear

I swear we'll never die

I swear we'll live on underground

I swear

I will give your heart a place to rest

When everything you had has turned and left.

I'll weave your names into my ribcage,

Lock your hearts inside my chest.

Regain the passion I once carried,

Do away with all the rest.

I tore the sickness from your bodies,

Smashed its head against the bricks.

I made a castle from its bones,

That you may always dwell in it.

So sing for every buried moment,

That you thought would never end.

And sing your fears about the future

And a dirge for faded friends.

For all the love that you had held to,

Why it somehow failed to keep.

And sing for each minute you've been frightened,

Every hour you've lost sleep.

And sing for all your friends and family,

Sing for those who didn't survive.

But sing not for their final outcome,

Sing a song of how they tried.

We live amidst a silent storm,

Leaves us unsatisfied at best.

So fill your heart with what's important

And be done with all the rest.

We are what's left of what we once were,

We are falling far behind.

There's so much stacking up against us

And we're running out of time.

We are but hopeful children

And we're the last of our kind.

But if we let our hearts move outward

I know we will never...

We are but friends and family,

We are the last of our kind.

So hold my hand, I'll lift your head up

And I promise we'll be fine.

We are but hopeful lovers

And we are running out of time.

There's so much stacking up against us

And we're falling far behind.

We are but hopeful lovers,

We are the last of our kind.

But if we let our hearts move outward,

I know we will never...

We are but lovers,

We are the last of our kind.

And if we let our hearts move outward,

I know we will never...

We are but lovers,

We are the last of our kind.

And if we let our hearts move outward

We will never die.