Do Not Let Your Spirit Wane (Explicit)

Do Not Let Your Spirit Wane (Explicit) - Gang of Youths

Written by：David Le'aupepe

So I have this dream

It comes like twice in a week

It's been so for years and years on repeat

And since then I've not had a full night of sleep

'Coz it plays out the same way

I live with this girl and our kid

I'm as happy as a pig rolled in s**t

It's postcard I'm settled

A pirate no more

A gypsy at most with no mortgage

It's boring but in the most exquisite of ways

No carcinogenic and humdrum malaise

And it's strange all the things that I've run from

Are the things that completeness could come from

So anyways we're happy and impossibly so

It's earth and it's heaven all simpatico

Floorboards laid out and the walls painted white

My dream self and I like the same things

They're all set to leave and I kiss them goodbye

They go and get groceries or something and I

Am drinking alone in the basement

And pray that I'm not hallucinating

Do not let this thing you got go to waste

Do not let your heart be dismayed

It's here by some random disclosure of grace

From some vascular great thing

Let your life grow strong and sweet to the taste

'Coz the odds are completely insane

Do not let your spirit wane

Do not let your spirit wane

In love I am careful to mostly reserved

And this dream is a life I don't think I deserve

My girl and our kid are impossibly bright

And I am just drunk in our basement

See a car see my girl and look at our kid

Approaching a corner with rain and a skid

Then a phone call to me from the ICU ward

Sir I'm so sorry to say this

I'm walking alone through the hospital door

ID their bodies collapse to the floor

Numb and relentlessly broken

Then I wake up the very next moment

Do not let this thing you got go to waste

Do not let your heart be dismayed

It's here by some random disclosure of grace

From some vascular great thing

Do not let this thing you got go to waste

The pain and the beauty so strange

Do not let your spirit wane

Do not let your spirit wane

Cut me out

Take me home my

Hands are tired

My legs are broke

And the ruptured chrome

Plus the deep unknown

Turn my insides out

And my head face down

Cut me out

Take me home my

Hands are tired

My legs are broke

And the ruptured chrome

Plus the deep unknown

Turn my insides out

And my head face down

Do not let this thing you got go to waste

Do not let your heart be dismayed

It's here by some random disclosure of grace

From some vascular great thing

Get the f**k out of your head if it says

Stay cold and be deathly afraid

Do not let your spirit wane

Do not let your spirit wane