Shearwater - Castaways lyrics
[Shearwater - Castaways lyrics]
By shadowing all the darkened fields
Of forgotten words and civilian lives
Violence through the changing guards
Through the grinding away
And their furious marching
By gathering the holy light and weathering
A castaway life and the rising fear
The hollowness of the flags and gods
That are raised in the air
In the wake of their raging your skinny arms
Hold the lantern up on the brightest array
Of the stars in their moorings and summoning
The holy light down on citadels
The blackening sky collapsing sun
The burning wall that approaches our eyes
You live again in the shuddering light
These images this valediction
You are running from a rising tide
You are castaways
Of forgotten words and civilian lives
Violence through the changing guards
Through the grinding away
And their furious marching
By gathering the holy light and weathering
A castaway life and the rising fear
The hollowness of the flags and gods
That are raised in the air
In the wake of their raging your skinny arms
Hold the lantern up on the brightest array
Of the stars in their moorings and summoning
The holy light down on citadels
The blackening sky collapsing sun
The burning wall that approaches our eyes
You live again in the shuddering light
These images this valediction
You are running from a rising tide
You are castaways