[ti:Do Not Let Your Spirit Wane] [ar:Gang of Youths] [al:Go Farther In Lightness] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Do Not Let Your Spirit Wane (Explicit) - Gang of Youths [00:15.47]Written by:David Le'aupepe [00:30.94]So I have this dream [00:32.06]It comes like twice in a week [00:34.54]It's been so for years and years on repeat [00:38.22]And since then I've not had a full night of sleep [00:41.99]'Coz it plays out the same way [00:46.79]I live with this girl and our kid [00:50.42]I'm as happy as a pig rolled in s**t [00:53.08]It's postcard I'm settled [00:54.98]A pirate no more [00:57.10]A gypsy at most with no mortgage [01:01.04]It's boring but in the most exquisite of ways [01:04.47]No carcinogenic and humdrum malaise [01:08.30]And it's strange all the things that I've run from [01:11.95]Are the things that completeness could come from [01:45.57]So anyways we're happy and impossibly so [01:49.63]It's earth and it's heaven all simpatico [01:53.44]Floorboards laid out and the walls painted white [01:57.06]My dream self and I like the same things [02:00.83]They're all set to leave and I kiss them goodbye [02:04.42]They go and get groceries or something and I [02:08.20]Am drinking alone in the basement [02:12.07]And pray that I'm not hallucinating [02:15.02]Do not let this thing you got go to waste [02:20.54]Do not let your heart be dismayed [02:23.20]It's here by some random disclosure of grace [02:26.96]From some vascular great thing [02:30.19]Let your life grow strong and sweet to the taste [02:35.52]'Coz the odds are completely insane [02:39.24]Do not let your spirit wane [02:42.21]Do not let your spirit wane [03:16.18]In love I am careful to mostly reserved [03:19.41]And this dream is a life I don't think I deserve [03:23.27]My girl and our kid are impossibly bright [03:27.00]And I am just drunk in our basement [03:30.81]See a car see my girl and look at our kid [03:34.69]Approaching a corner with rain and a skid [03:38.28]Then a phone call to me from the ICU ward [03:42.22]Sir I'm so sorry to say this [03:45.92]I'm walking alone through the hospital door [03:49.79]ID their bodies collapse to the floor [03:53.43]Numb and relentlessly broken [03:57.04]Then I wake up the very next moment [04:00.05]Do not let this thing you got go to waste [04:05.37]Do not let your heart be dismayed [04:08.45]It's here by some random disclosure of grace [04:12.18]From some vascular great thing [04:15.01]Do not let this thing you got go to waste [04:20.53]The pain and the beauty so strange [04:24.26]Do not let your spirit wane [04:27.17]Do not let your spirit wane [05:00.71]Cut me out [05:04.48]Take me home my [05:08.09]Hands are tired [05:12.05]My legs are broke [05:14.65]And the ruptured chrome [05:18.04]Plus the deep unknown [05:21.56]Turn my insides out [05:25.28]And my head face down [05:30.68]Cut me out [05:34.37]Take me home my [05:38.09]Hands are tired [05:41.97]My legs are broke [05:44.43]And the ruptured chrome [05:47.93]Plus the deep unknown [05:51.57]Turn my insides out [05:55.22]And my head face down [06:30.40]Do not let this thing you got go to waste [06:35.60]Do not let your heart be dismayed [06:38.36]It's here by some random disclosure of grace [06:41.96]From some vascular great thing [06:45.30]Get the f**k out of your head if it says [06:50.63]Stay cold and be deathly afraid [06:54.35]Do not let your spirit wane [06:57.04]Do not let your spirit wane