Hold Fast Hope

How can you be sleeping?

Waves like weapons crash

Over us, cry for mercy

Let's hold fast hope

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

Search your souls and hold fast

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

Let's 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

Let's hold fast, hold fast

Deep beneath the black dawn

Leagues from lightning's flash

Ribs will raise

Cathedrals

For the morning mass

Steel yourself in sackcloth

Roll your heart in ash

Scrape your skin with steel wool

Let's hold fast hope

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