Lay Of The Last Survivor

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She went out and found
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Her father face down on the ground
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Out in the cold

[Verse 2]

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She walked her way around
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A hill with the sun sinking down
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Into the snow

[Verse 3]

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All the whitecaps of the waves slap
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Like last hand claps
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And the dark water dies in a crash
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Is sucked back with a moan
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And the smoke on the coast

[Verse 4]

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Oh, piled fathers
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Soft, sighing daughters
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Where does it go?

[Instrumental]

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[Verse 5]

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It's a dream, now
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I'll describe
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Let your mind drift on down, like so

[Verse 6]

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To when the world was young
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A big sky, blue of a dead bachelor's tongue
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A new bloom on the rose

[Interlude]

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So some line someone told says
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Even light can get old

[Verse 7]

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Oh, slobbering lovers
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Drink-clinking brothers
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They don't have to tell us, 'cause we know

[Instrumental]

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[Verse 8]

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What a way down
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What a ride, what a slide spin-around
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What a life to have known

[Verse 9]

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What a time
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And how I was singing out in a crowd
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Of the thousand most frightening faces I've known

[Verse 10]

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And when the lighthouse
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Lending us sight finally went out
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What a fright we felt
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In that night

[Verse 11]

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Friends just shout it out
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All the whys and don't knows
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All the cries in our throats
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And how right we felt

[Verse 12]

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With our eyes tightly closed
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Holding something we broke
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And then whimpering sisters
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Sobbing well-wishers
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It's over

[Outro]

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Just let my hand go