Castaways Lyrics - Golden Archipelago - Shearwater

By shadowing 

All the darkened fields 

Of forgotten words 

And civilian lives 

Violence 

Through the changing guards 

Through the grinding away 

And their furious marching 

By gathering the holy light 

And weathering 

A castaway life 

And the rising fear 

The hollowness 

Of the flags and gods 

That are raised in the air 

In the wake of their raging 

Your skinny arms 

Hold the lantern up 

On the brightest array 

Of the stars in their moorings 

And summoning 

The holy light down 

On citadels 

The blackening sky 

Collapsing sun 

The burning wall 

That approaches our eyes 

You live again 

In the shuddering light 

These images 

This valediction 

You are running from 

A rising tide 

You are castaways