Refugee (feat Gerard Mora and Parker Malcolm)

from Dream of Waking Up by This Present Darkness

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(Verse 1)
We lost it all in a moment,
Shattered glass across the past,
And they say we can't get it back,
But I'm trying so hard to
Rewind, step back in time,
These are the best days of our lives,
So if they're lost are we too?
Where do we draw the line?
There's a point where it all fades to black,
And the past is lost in a haze,
We can't get it back.
If it never happened,
If I forget it,
Did it matter,
Or am I eternally a liar?

(Verse 2)
There's a lot of light in your future, child,
And I know it's gonna take a while,
But every mosaic is made from broken glass,
So darling don't fear your past.
This is not the end of everything,
This is where hope springs up and gets her wings,
This is where we learn to combat hate with love,
This is where divisions can be lost in common blood.

(Verse 3)
I know your light you speak of with glowing eyes,
And behind your warm words lay only empty lies.
We feed a fading past in futility to breathe life,
But stare into your “light” with empty eyes.
We were made to clutch at impermanence,
With our penchant for building faith on nothingness.

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from Dream of Waking Up, released January 1, 2016

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