Darkest Before the Light

from Rōnin by Lost on Purpose

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All our songs are only what they are
May you live a long life in the desert
Find a young branch to splice to yours
Fill a basket with the olives from the hillside from the summer when you loved her

Pick a path and stay a little while
The woods are tall and dark
But you still love them
Fill a shelf with hand written leather books
The faintest ink lasts longer than the strongest memory two stupid weeks you'll never leave me

I woke up in the middle
Of an ocean in the city
In the center of a war
With the bones of those before

The sky is always darkest before the light
I hope we don't die
This feels like old times
Scrape away the stones above my grave
To the era in the strata with your name
Two bodies on my brain

I woke up in the middle
Of an ocean in the city
In the center of a war
With the bones of those before
In the middle of a war
In the middle of a war
In the fields on the coast
On the mountain fear the war

Drag our bodies to the school
On motorcycles burn the fuel
Take a picture of the dead
A single palm tree shadow stands
I woke up in the city
In the center of a war
In the middle of a field
Behind the school where I was born
Where I was born
Where I was born

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from Rōnin, released July 16, 2013

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