Afterglow - Kingdom of Giants, Rory Rodriguez

This awakening

This questioning of our mortality

This awakening

this questioning of our mortality keeps us alive

You didn’t ask for my permission to take his life

You didn’t ask for my opinion or those he left behind

No matter how dark it seems to be now

Where there is life, there is always hope

Give me something to believe in when the world has turned it’s back on me

Now let’s go

Give me something to believe in while my heart is in my hands

Give me something to believe in when the world has turned it’s back on me

Please don’t give up on me

I’m here to write this letter

I’ve got this pen and paper

I’m here to write this letter to show things will get better.

I’d like to leave an echo whispering down the ways

Of happy times, laughing times, and bright and sunny days

I’d like the tears of those who grieve to dry before the sun

To live in peace and solace when the deed of life is done

I turned to music when my father passed

and when my brother left this world there was no turning back

I know I’m meant to be the rock but lately I’ve been feeling weaker than I

ever thought

No matter how dark it seems to be now,

Where there is life, there is always hope

Give me something to believe in when the world has turned it’s back on me

Oh god the mistakes that I have made

How many souls have I harmed along the way?

I was certain until now there was no heaven or hell

But when you’re laying on that bed you will take anyone’s help

All I want is to be remembered

To leave a mark and to live forever

Etch my name into the stone for eternity and forevermore

I know

I know what it’s like to feel alone

Everything i touch now either dies or turns to stone

Now press rewind

And play it back a thousand times

You can pick me up or you can throw me down

You can chew me up and you can spit me out

My heart grows founder, it only makes me stronger

To anyone that’s picked me up and to anyone that’s

held me down

My heart grows fonder, it only makes me stronger now

Stronger now

It only makes me stronger

Oh god the mistakes that I have made

How many souls have I harmed along the way?

I was certain until now there was no heaven or hell

But when you’re laying on that bed you will

take anyone’s help

All I want is to be remembered

To leave a mark and to live forever.

Etch my name into the stone for eternity and forevermore.