Desperation - Eligh, Murs, Scarub

Strong people keep moving forward anyway

No matter what they’re going through

A journey on foot with little prospect of survival

For a man in a land where some discipline is vital

I’m a piece of a bigger plan

A grain in a sea of sand

The soul of the land seeking fortune on a caravan

The only backbone I got is my own man

Trails out home through my and no land

Salvation is that one wish you dream got you hoping

That few ever reach grass hold and open

Some believe in luck others know they chosen

And then there’s those stuck in the middle stones just frozen

There’s two types of people you either do it or you watch

Well if you’re watching me do this well you’re obviously not

On the same side, I keep it moving like a landslide

Even with doubt inside, life’s a constant fight

Each moment is struggle against hunger, cold, fear, pain

If it don’t kill me then peel muscle like gain

Gotta get up gotta get back in to something, something

Desperation cracks the hardest man

Gotta get tough gotta get by so it’s not for nothing, nothing

Get that stride let your chariot ride

You see this dream right here?

It’s mine

I kept it whole through rain, sleet, snow, sunshine

It’s what I used to nurture it

Even though it hurt a bit

When demons fed it doubt I would never let 'em murder it

Close to my heart, warm, safe

Now grow, free, form, shape

A dream is like a life you see it comes from a seed

A tiny one called hope that blossoms in your time of need

It can’t be harvested or rushed by lust, greed

When no one else will, you must believe

Told to me by an old man, we met out on a caravan

Side of the road he sobbed, head in is hands

When he looked up at me, his eyes still stream

He told me tears about the blood of a man’s crushed dream

And that they only die because we keep them deep inside

Rich men keep dreams, foolish men keep pride

They only laugh at you

Because their dreams died a long time ago

But whatever you do

Never, never let your dreams drown in a sea of doubt and desperation

Cause they won’t

Gotta get up gotta get back in to something, something

Gotta get tough gotta get by so it’s not for nothing, nothing

Lying on my back in the desert staring up at the stars

Wondering about where I’m at

Pondering all the facts and the cards

from afar

I find myself in a wagon

Straight, caravaning through famine, romantic travelers

Circuits break and I speak through a unique, peak data reached

Speech found out of habit

Forming around my rabbit feet for good luck

I might have a stab at it

Giving up because I’m not living up to my expectations

With a higher base foundation

Correlate to what I’m facing

In a parallel universe, we might be adjacent

But now we’re separated

Segregated by my complacence

What a coincidence

I look in the mirror and I see me, desperado

That’s my bravado

Gotta ease with my days

Outta trouble outta decay

Outta bubbles I saw why I pop my way

To sing tomorrows praise

Laying down my life under the critique of your gaze

Your amazing grace