Lyrics

Castaways

[Verse 1]-

We catch our breaths and close our eyes.

Overboard, we hit the sea in a shallow dive.

Hopes of life rafts pass us by.

The bodies floating in the water cannot be revived.

I mouth curses and count my strides.

I find your pulse, unconvinced that I'm even alive.

Shipwrecked dreams come in with the tides,

They're all that's left of the castaways that survived.

Stranded on the coast, we were close to losing what we loved most.

I feel it in my throat when I note we never got off the boat.

We crashed when we made contact.

Driftwood is our only artifact.

Our past is the present amateur performers try to reenact.

[Verse 2]-

We are islands,

Ruled by tyrants.

We're scared to fall asleep and see who is behind our eyelids.

The horizon­–

Never widens.

If wisdom comes from pain, why are we not enlightened?

When we swim against the current, the riptide leaves us motionless.

Existential thought did not brace us for this kind of hopelessness.

Emotionally unstable,

Socially disabled.

Diplomacy is unable

To show us how to coexist.

We shake when the ground beneath us shifts.

We dismiss lighthouses in the mist.

We both wish for more to life than this.

We always search for something else and never truly realize what we missed.