Lay of the Last Survivor

Lyrics

[Verse 1] She went out and found Her father face down on the ground Out in the cold Walked her way around A hill with the sun sinking down Into the snow [Pre-Chorus 1] All the whitecaps of the waves slap Like last hand claps And the dark water dies in a crash Is sucked back with a moan Smoke on the coast [Chorus 1] And oh, piled fathers Soft, sighing daughters Where does it go? [Verse 2] It's a dream, now I'll describe, let your mind drift on down, like so To when the world was young A big sky, blue of a dead bachelor's tongue A new bloom on the rose [Pre-Chorus 2] So some line someone told says Even light can get old [Chorus 2] Oh, slobbering lovers Drink-clinking brothers They don't have to tell us, 'cause we know [Verse 3] What a way down What a ride, what a slide spin-around What a life to have known What a time And how I was singing out in a crowd Of the thousand most frightening faces I've known [Pre-Chorus 3] When the lighthouse Lending us sight finally went out What a fright we felt In that night [Bridge] Friends just shout it out All the whys and don't knows All the cries in our throats And how right we felt With our eyes tightly closed Holding something we broke [Chorus 3] And then whimpering sisters Sobbing well-wishers Well, it's over Just let my hand go