Authors That Gave Up

from Still by Lost Cities

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Here are the restless ones
Who bury the old guards
That hide from what they see
Though they've not seen so far

Where mounds become mountains
We disguise the dark

Old hands lie open motionless
Uncross the arms
Put her inside of his

We've learned it's shallow
Where bones seem to sleep
Beneath the feet of those who grieve

Truth sits below the current
Where belief baptizes the surface

We sink through the horizon
Of authors that gave up
In their landscapes of dust
And we exhale forever
In the depth of the flood

We're all the restless ones
Breathing deep in new lungs

And when they find us
We will have left our names
Upon the lips of the black waves

There are no tears down here
Among the faint songs we sing
To lost kings that we've been

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from Still, released December 11, 2015
Lost Cities

Recorded and mixed at HELM Recording
Mastered by Charles Carvalho

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2009–2015
Photograph courtesy of www.aschwab.ca

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