We're the last of the sleepless ones,
Left behind by those we left behind tonight.
Quiet now, let the poison take,
Were we always just your lost cause mistakes?
Wait for me, will you wait for me?
I need you on my side.
Wait for me, Meg wait for me,
With arms wide.
Alone, left alone,
Watch us slowly disappear with time.
Alone, still alone,
Forgotten, lost, and left behind.
Dark lit streets are no place for kids,
But it gives us more of a home than you ever did.
We're the scientists left to our own demise,
You're still our last chance to get out of this place alive.
Wait for me, will you wait for me, with arms wide?
Alone, left alone,
Watch us slowly disappear with time.
Alone, still alone,
Forgotten, lost, and left behind.
Alone, left alone,
Watch us slowly disappear in time.
Alone, left alone,
Watch us slowly disappear with time.
Alone, still alone,
Forgotten, lost, and left
Alone, left alone,
Watch us slowly disappear with time.
Alone, still alone,
Forgotten, lost, and left behind.
Left behind by those we left behind tonight.
Quiet now, let the poison take,
Were we always just your lost cause mistakes?
I need you on my side.
Wait for me, Meg wait for me,
With arms wide.
Watch us slowly disappear with time.
Alone, still alone,
Forgotten, lost, and left behind.
But it gives us more of a home than you ever did.
We're the scientists left to our own demise,
You're still our last chance to get out of this place alive.
Wait for me, will you wait for me, with arms wide?
Watch us slowly disappear with time.
Alone, still alone,
Forgotten, lost, and left behind.
Watch us slowly disappear in time.
Watch us slowly disappear with time.
Alone, still alone,
Forgotten, lost, and left
Watch us slowly disappear with time.
Alone, still alone,
Forgotten, lost, and left behind.
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Stephen Christian says....
“Disappear” came out of the homelessness in LA, just driving by it every day to work, to go record this record. After awhile it came to be that I can’t believe these people are disappearing in my mind. The first day you’re just like, oh my gosh, I can’t believe all these homeless people are out here. By day two you’re like, oh man, by day three you’re just like, hmm, and by day twelve they’re just an after thought. It struck me one day, how does this happen in my life, how do we as human beings just grow so desensitized to things that we see on television or in the news.”
"This song was written about a documentary I saw on National Geographic about homeless kids and my first hand experience with those less fortunate that I witnessed in Los Angeles. It was hard to think that no one cared, and that the more I drove by the less I did. They just become fixtures… their lack became normal. Its not that they left, they just became invisible to me. Quickly I realized my error, wrote this song and worked with an organization called RED EYE in LA to try to do my part." - Stephen Christian anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014
amazing song! can't wait for this new album to come out...
but this song at a glance makes me think he's (stephen or whoever the hell its about) reffering to somebody (possibly god) that ditched him and left him stranded, but in the end is his only out of whatever predicament he's in
"The lyrics are about not forgetting the homeless."
great song. new surrender is definitely going to be one of my aoty's.
glad twloha got these lyrics. now there here.
silentists... did Stephen make up another word? just like conversate
In TWLOHA's exclusive blog which was where the lyrics to this song were first posted, Jamie said Stepehn told him that this song is about not forgetting the homeless.
This song is great. I can't wait for New Surrender.
although i love this song, it is a little sad. and it does seem like it is about homeless people.
although i love this song, it is a little sad. and it does seem like it is about homeless people.
amazing song