The Gift You Give

from The New Despair by Northtop Gunman

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I've never felt so cold in all my life
As when the pages of your chapter were torn out before my eyes
Nothing that I say or do can recall those words to life
And that haunts me like a spectre or regret every night

You love you lose, you live and learn
You learn to live but you still yearn for something more
You chase you choose, you break you burn
The gift you give, I'll never earn
Oh simply to be yours

There was something in the sky the day that the world fell ill
No-one questioned the implications of the captain's will
I was haunted by a sudden sense of existentialist dread
Now I'm contempt with the notion that we're already dead

I was guided by a vision in a fever dream
Death invited me to see all was not what it seemed
In the desert I laid my eyes upon the walking man
Bearing the key to my redemption grasped within an outstretched hand

In the wasteland, we make our stand
Against the hand of doom
In the rubble, we push and struggle
For our salvation cannot come too soon.

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from The New Despair, released May 6, 2020
Performed by Northtop Gunman
Written by David Buchan, Conor "Cod" O'Donnell and Ruiri Harker
Produced by Fud Records

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