Hold Fast Hope - Thrice

How can you be sleeping?

Waves like weapons crash

O’er us, cry for mercy and hold fast hope

Who of us is cursed, or do we have to ask

Search your souls and hold fast

If no one speaks a word, then let the lots be cast

Truth be told and hold fast

White death wakes in black skies, mark your maker’s wrath

Fear and flames of azure climb the crooked mast

You will yet be baptized, steeped in shattered glass

Sink and sing your answer and hold fast

As strong arms grip your shoulders

Like dead hands of the past

Pray as you’re tossed over

This breath could be your last

Quiet and cold

Silent and slow

Night black as coal

Miles here below

Find your faith and dive deep, through living gateways pass

Lined with death and ivory, and hold fast, hold fast

Deep beneath the black dawn, leagues from lightning’s flash

(Ribs will raise cathedrals)

Ribs will raise cathedrals for the morning mass

(For the morning mass)

Steel yourself in sackcloth, roll your heart in ash

(Scrape your skin with steel wool)

Scrape your skin with steel wool and hold fast hope

(Roll your heart in ash)

Ribs will raise cathedrals for the morning mass

Scrape your skin with steel wool

Cross your heart and hold fast hope

Hold fast hope, hold fast hope