The Lifeboat

There's a shadow across the land
 There's a hatred and a hunger
 And it's hard to understand
 How we fell so far from where we began
 
 There's a stumble now in our step
 There's blood in the flem
 There's a lump in the breast
 There's a smell of sickness on our breath
 There's a dread deep down in our bones
 Something is finished, abandon your homes
 Strike out into the great unknown
 
 But there are no new continents to be found
 No new frontiers to cross
 No gold in the ground
 Stay with the books, blessed ye be drowned
 Save what you can
 Behind us the old world in flames
 Lower the lifeboats
 Take the tiller
 Steer the way
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 There are stories now worth being told
 There are victories to grasp more valuable than gold
 And we will speak of to our children when we're old
 There are battles now, words being formed
 There are lessons to be learned and later to be told
 There are soldiers on the field who can't be blood
 There's a clarity now in our view
 From the prow we see far that all now is new
 Free our loves, we know what we must do
 There is hope now in the wind
 And the millions who are marching demanding we be kind
 From the new lives the lifeboat might find
 Save what you can
 Behind us the old world in flames
 Lower the lifeboats
 Take the tiller
 Steer the way
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 Save what you can
 Lower the lifeboats
 Steer the way
 Find shore, a ground on the horizon
 Through the waves
 Steer a clear coarse to a new world
 To a new day
 Save what you can
 Lower the lifeboats
 Steer the way