Don't Lose Heart - Civilian

Holding your neck while the fuzz and the feds

Are detaining your grandson for drugs

Who would have thought that man he’d become

Would look just like the grandfather’s son

Some would suggest that the past is the past

And that wisdom exonerates youth

But who would have thought that the shit you got into

Could find its way back under your roof

I’ve seen the system, darling

I’ve fed this hungry machine

I want my family, darling

Not to see the things that I’ve seen

I want the unprotected

I want to see what I dream

I want the inconvenience

I hope you see that

When you find that love isn’t what you thought

Don’t lose hope, don’t lose heart

I fell much faster, but she fell much further

Inevitably breaking her heart

Haunted by memories that she cannot shake

But her ghost has not darkened my door

Darling, I pray that my heart soon would change

If I’m failing to see what you are

All I have I would give

If for a second just to hold you

I pray, my love, you forgive

Any time I didn’t hold you close

When you find yourself lying there alone

Don’t forget what a dream you are