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I felt your sickness
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Brush against my arm
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As I walked by you
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Heard your voice but
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Couldn't tell that it was you
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And slowly
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Watched your sickness slip away
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Into a place
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That I'd once feared, but I
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Was not afraid this time
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So I gave chase and found it, finally
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Slowly feeding from your head
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And from my friends, and from my family
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So I grabbed it by the neck
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"For every lover you have ruined...;"
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I dug my nails into its flesh
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"...;and every life that you have taken"
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Slammed its head against the brick
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Its blood poured out onto the pavement
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I stirred it in with dirt and spit
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"I will take a part of you"
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I made mortar from the mix
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Tore every organ from its body
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Broke its bone and fashioned bricks
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I laid the mortar in between
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I made a throne for hope to sit
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"Too long you've torn us into pieces
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Firmly held onto our wrists
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Today I bury you in me"
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I swallowed every inch of it
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I'll
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I'll hold you
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As you have held me
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You've held me in your heart
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We'll be
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We'll be set free from
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We'll be set free from
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Fear, we'll be set free
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Oh we've felt our failures
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We've watched our passions
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Leave, but we're still breathing
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Oh but we're still beating on
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I'll
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I'll hold you
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As you have held me
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You've held me in your heart
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(And I will hold you in my heart)
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But I still see him
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Dead in the parking lot
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At the gas station just down the street
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And I still hear my friend say
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"You know, you wouldn't believe the things
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I saw when I was stationed overseas"
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But he somehow keeps smiling
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In spite all of that
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While I keep finding ways
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To push the good out for the bad
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Oh how selfish of myself
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To always say that it was
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More than I could take
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Like it was pain I couldn't shake
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Like it could break me with its fingers
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Throw my body in the lake
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And I would slowly sink away
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But the truth is, it was sorrow
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That I made
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And wouldn't face
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See, I keep falling for the future
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After tripping on the past
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And I am always tearing sutures out
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To make the anguish last
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Like it defines me
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Or reminds me
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I've found comfort in my suffering
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And uncertainty in happiness and death
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Because what's next is such a mystery to me
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And I am terrified of all the things
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I feel but cannot see
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Friends and family
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Put your hand into my hand
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And lay your head into my chest
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You are all that I have left here
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We are all that we have left
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We are the lovers
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We are the last of our kind
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So link your arms and keep your chin up
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And I swear that we'll be fine
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We are the lovers
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We are the last of our kind
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Though we are not sure who we are
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We keep our heads up
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Though we are not sure where we're from
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We keep our hearts up
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Though we are not sure when we'll leave
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We keep our heads up
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Though we are not sure where we'll go
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We keep our hopes up
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Though we're not sure who we are
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We keep our heads up
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Though we're not sure where we're from
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We keep our hearts up
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Though we're not sure when we'll leave
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We keep our heads up
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Though we're not sure where we'll go
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We keep our hopes up
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Keep your head up
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We're fine
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Just keep your head up
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I swear we'll be alright
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Keep your head up
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My friends, my friends
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Keep your head up
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I swear
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I swear we'll never die, I swear
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We'll get home safe and sound, I swear
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I swear we'll never die, I swear
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We'll live on underground, I swear
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I will give your heart a place to rest
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When everything you had has turned and left
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I'll weave your names into my ribcage
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Lock your hearts inside my chest
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Regain the passion I once carried
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Do away with all the rest
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I tore the sickness from your bodies
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Smashed its head against the bricks
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I made a castle from its bones
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That you may always dwell in it
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So sing for every buried moment
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That you'd thought would never end
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And sing your fears about the future
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And a dirge for faded friends
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For all the love that you had held to
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Why it somehow failed to keep
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And sing each minute you've been frightened
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Every hour that you've lost sleep
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And sing for all your friends and family
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Sing for those who didn't survive
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But sing not for their final outcome
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Sing a song of how they tried
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We live amidst a violent storm
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Leaves us unsatisfied at best
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So fill your hearts with what's important
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And be done with all the rest
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We are what's left of what we once were
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We are falling far behind
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There's so much stacking up against us
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And we're running out of time
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We are but hopeful children
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And we're the last of our kind
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But if we let our hearts move outward
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I know we will never
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We are but friends and family
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We are the last of our kind
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So hold my hand, I'll lift your head up
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And I promise we'll be fine
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We are but hopeful lovers
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And we are running out of time
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There's so much stacking up against us
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And we're falling far behind
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We are but hopeful lovers
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We are the last of our kind
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But if we let our hearts move outward
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I know we will never
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We are but lovers
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We are the last of our kind
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And if we let our hearts move outward
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I know we will never
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We are but lovers
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We are the last of our kind
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And if we let our hearts move outward
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We will never die
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Name The Last Lost Continent
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Artist La Dispute
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Album Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair
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