When It Lives

I won’t think any less of you if you count the cost
Of the love we made and the love we lost.
Fate begins forever when we watch it go off.

I’ve got the presence of mind to say, keep holding on, when it lives.

Everything that dies is everything I saved,
And something that you’ve wasted is all that I gave,
I house the light of hope, and wonder if you’ll stay.

I’ve got the presence of mind to say, keep holding on, when it lives.

This rebuilder’s hard at work on you,
You loved me for a moment, but couldn’t make it through,
I’m sleepwalking down the street you’d never do.

I’ve got the presence of mind to say, keeping holding on, when it lives.