Lay Of The Last Survivor

[Verse 1] She went out and found Her father face down on the ground Out in the cold [Verse 2] She walked her way around A hill with the sun sinking down Into the snow [Verse 3] 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 And the smoke on the coast [Verse 4] Oh, piled fathers Soft, sighing daughters Where does it go? [Verse 5] It's a dream, now I'll describe Let your mind drift on down, like so [Verse 6] To when the world was young A big sky, blue of a dead bachelor's tongue A new bloom on the rose [Interlude] So some line someone told says Even light can get old [Verse 7] Oh, slobbering lovers Drink-clinking brothers They don't have to tell us, cause we know [Verse 8] What a way down What a ride, what a slide spin-around What a life to have known [Verse 9] What a time And how I was singing out in a crowd Of the thousand most frightening faces I've known [Verse 10] And when the lighthouse Lending us sight finally went out What a fright we felt In that night [Verse 11] Friends just shout it out All the whys and don't knows All the cries in our throats And how right we felt [Verse 12] With our eyes tightly closed Holding something we broke And then whimpering sisters Sobbing well-wishers It's over [Outro] Just let my hand go