Stornoway - Lost Youth lyrics

High up in the valley where the snow still lies Hiding in the shadow of the mountainside We are lost Washed into the river with the sticks and stones Buried in the gravel with the mammoth's bones We are lost And we know just what we want, but we don't know how to describe it And so we keep it locked up inside, we don't want anybody else to find it We are shaken from the shallows in a winter storm Flushed into the channel to be swept off shore We are lost Cast up on the jetty on a moonlit night Thrust into the city on a big spring tide We are lost And we don't know where we stand, but we think we know what we stand for And still we keep it locked up inside, because nobody else could understand why We are lost (We are lost) We are lost, with nobody else to blame We gather in the shadows where we build our strength Examining each other for the final test We are lost We climb into the rocket heading out to space And come into the orbit of a new found race We are lost And we know we're growing up, but we won't know until we get there We have to keep it locked up inside, don't know if anybody else has been there And we can tell them where we are from, but we don't know if they'd believe it So we keep it locked up inside, we don't let anybody share our secret We are lost (We are lost) We are lost, but now we know we're on our way We are lost (We are lost) On our way to find peace between our bodies and our brains We are lost We are lost