Lyrics

Trail Of The Long Walk

[Verse 1]
Snow on the cornfield
Smoke over winter ground
We woke to the thunder of horses
Boots
Blue coats
Shouting loud
Names on a paper
Lines drawn on stolen maps
They said
“You are moving westward”
They never said coming back

[Chorus]
We remember the Long Walk
Feet bleeding into stone
Children carried
Elders fallen
But we never walked alone
Sky was our blanket
Song was our only fire
We remember the Long Walk
And we walk for those tired

[Verse 2]
Four days of rations
For a hundred hungry suns
Mothers trading woven sashes
For a crust to share with sons
Frozen in wagon shadows
Chained in a dusty row
Counting the rivers we crossed
Like beads on a broken rope

[Chorus]
We remember the Long Walk
Feet bleeding into stone
Children carried
Elders fallen
But we never walked alone
Sky was our blanket
Song was our only fire
We remember the Long Walk
And we walk for those tired

[Bridge]
[Drums soften
Flute answers the vocal]
Call the names in the night air (hey!)
Speak them into the wind
Those who laid down in canyon sand
Those who did not return again
We are their breath
Still rising
We are their tracks
Still clear
Every step home toward the sunrise
Says
“We are still here… still here”

[Chorus]
We remember the Long Walk
Feet bleeding into stone
Children carried
Elders fallen
But we never walked alone
Sky is our blanket
Song is our living fire
We remember the Long Walk
And we walk their road higher (ohhh)

[Outro]
[Low chant
Hand drums and flute]
Step by step
We’re singing
Step by step
We rise
Trail of grief
Trail of power
Home carried in our eyes