I felt your sickness brush against my arm as I walked by you

Heard your voice but couldn′t tell that it was you

And slowly watched your sickness slip away into a place that I'd once feared butI was not afraid this time

So I gave chase and found it, finally, slowly feeding from your head

And from my friends, and from my family, so

I grabbed it by the neck

"For every lover you have ruined..."

I dug my nails into its flesh

"...and every life that you have taken..."

Slammed its head against the brick

Its blood poured out onto the pavement

I stirred it in with dirt and spit

"I will take a part of you"

I made mortar from the mix

Tore every organ from its body

Broke its bone and fashioned bricks

I laid the mortar in between

I made a throne for hope to sit

"Too long you′ve torn us into pieces

Firmly held onto our wrists

Today I bury you in me"

I swallowed every inch of it

I'll hold you, as you have held me, you've held me in your heart

We′ll be, we′ll be set free from, we'll be set free from fear, we will be be set free

We′ve felt our failures

We've watched our passions leave, but

We′re still breathing on

But we're still beating on

I′ll hold you

As you have held me

You've held me in your heart

And I will hold you in my heart

But I still see him dead in the parking lot at the gas station just down the street

And I still hear my friend say

"You know, you wouldn't believe the things I saw when I was stationed overseas"

But he somehow keeps smiling in spite all of that, while

I keep finding ways to push the good out for the bad

Oh, how selfish of myself to always say that it was more than I could take,

Like it was pain I could not shake, like

It could break me with its fingers, throw my body in the lake, and

I would slowly sink away but

The Truth is it was sorrow that I made and would not face

See, I keep falling for the future after tripping on the past

And I am always tearing sutures out to make the anguish last

Like it defines me

Or reminds me I′ve found comfort in my suffering

And uncertainty in happiness and death, because

What′s next is such a mystery to me

And I am terrified of all the things I feel but cannot see

Friends and family, put your hand into my hand and

Lay your head into my chest

You are all that I have left here

We are all that we have left

We are the lovers

We are the last of our kind

Link your arms and keep your chin up, and

I swear that we'll be fine

We are the lovers

We are the last of our kind

Though we′re not sure who we are, we keep our heads up

Though we're not sure where we′re from, we keep our hearts up

Though we're not sure when we′ll leave, we keep our heads up

Though we're not sure where we'll go, we keep our hopes up

Though we′re not sure who we are, we keep our heads up

Though we′re not sure where we're from, we keep our hearts up

Though we′re not sure when we'll leave, we keep our heads up

Though we′re not sure where we'll go, we keep our hopes up

Keep your head up, we′re fine, just

Keep your head up, I swear, we'll be alright

Keep your head up, oh, my friends, my friends

Keep your head up, and

I swear, we'll never die

I swear, we′ll get home safe and sound

I swear, we′ll never die

I swear, we'll live on underground

I swear

I will give your heart a place to rest when everything you had has turned and left.

I′ll weave your names into my ribcage; lock your hearts inside my chest

Regain the passion I once carried; do away with all the rest

I tore the sickness from your bodies; smashed its head against the bricks

I made a castle from its bones that you may always dwell in it

So sing for every buried moment that you'd thought would never end

And sing your fears about the future; and a dirge for faded friends

For all the love that you had held to, why it somehow failed to keep

And sing each minute you′ve been frightened; every hour that you've lost sleep.

And sing for all your friends and family; sing for those who didn′t survive

But sing not for their final outcome; sing a song of how they tried

We live amidst a violent storm; leaves us unsatisfied at best

So fill your heart with what's important, and be done with all the rest

We are what's left of what we once were

We are falling far behind

There′s so much stacking up against us

And we′re running out of time

We are but hopeful children

And we're the last of our kind

But if we let our hearts move outward

I know we will never

We are but friends and family

We are the last of our kind

So hold my hand, I′ll lift your head up, and

I promise we'll be fine

We are but hopeful lovers

And we are running out of time

There′s so much stacking up against us

And we're falling far behind

We are but hopeful lovers

We are the last of our kind

But if we let our hearts move outward

I know we will never

We are but lovers

We are the last of our kind

And if we let our hearts move outward

I know we will never

We are but lovers

We are the last of our kind

And if we let our hearts move outward

We will never die