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 its head against the brick

Its 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 its 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 bury you in me"

I swallowed every inch of it

I'll

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

Oh we've felt our failures

We've watched our passions

Leave

but we're still breathing

Oh but we're still beating on

I'll

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 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'd 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 each minute you've been frightened

Every hour that 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 violent storm

Leaves us unsatisfied at best

So fill your hearts 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