When Everyone Forgets

You followed me, I followed you
 With new language you lead me adrift
 To find and swallow you
 Into this continental rift but
 Will all songs be ancient text when
 Affairs of lust and power lost on
 Railroad tracks or slaveship decks
 Why has your love become neglect?
 Somewhere there's a memory
 A truth that lives in lies
 An echo of the way you knew me under foreign skies
 Will I live in hiding
 Between these silhouettes?
 Will you remember me when everyone forgets?
 Do you know me anymore?
 Wasn't I your comfort and your god
 And weren't you the shore
 I called you home and cried for you but
 Sons rise up and Shadow falls
 Over rooftops, years and eyes are in
 The hopes that you'll recall
 Wasn't I a god to you?
 Somewhere there's a memory
 A truth that lives in lies
 An echo of the way you knew me under foreign skies
 Will I live in hiding
 Between these silhouettes?
 Will you remember me when everyone forgets?
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 I promise I will still be there
 Even when I haven't got a prayer
 Just a lonely stranger in America, but
 I'm still here
 Oh, god, I'm here
 I swear
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 Somewhere there's a memory
 A truth that lives in lies
 An echo of the way you knew me under foreign skies
 Will I live in hiding
 Between these silhouettes?
 Will you remember me when everyone forgets?