TRAIL OF TEARS
A long hot day brings a cold dark night
Illumed by fear
On this road away from home
We’re walking starving to the bone
A trail of tears
There’s no end to what they’re taking, O God, have you forsaken?
Can you hear our cries?
Our eyes they fill with tears as the land we’ve built for years
Is tricked from our hands
They talk of Manifest
Of how they are blessed
While our children are dying
Hope is gone and withered like the dreams of our sister
The cause of our sighing
There’s nothing civilized about walking in a line
There’s nothing civilized in disregarding life
Vultures in the sky, earth is bleeding now as we die
On a cursed road
Leading us to nowhere, far from all that we’d sown there
Across the river
If power writes the pages of stories through the ages
There’s another side to hear
Buried under rubble
There are still the ghosts who stumble
On a trail of tears