Blowing dust from pages of the book of the old ways Tryna fan a fire that's been smoking since they came Distant songs powdered bones Deep inside the caves Sentimental pieces the eye cannot locate Tryna find some reason in the pain of it all And time Oh, time marches on We're walking on broken glass Tryna get along with peace And every piece the centre of it all Wounds as deep as canyons Hands worked to the bone Sacrifices undenied to get us to this point And hand in hand we stumble on And listen to your songs And breathe Oh, we breathe with heavy hearts And I lay here awake Thinking what you would say As you are always in my heart Burning strong from the start Now that you're gone your flame burns on Dawn through to dusk High above the mantle High above the shame King parrot calls the one he loves To keep her close and safe Their pride it is their nature And from nature it was raised The pride inside of all of us Can be extinguished by hate Am I not my father living with this curse Am I not my mother a veil over the hurt You have shown me freedom King within my gates You have shown me anguish for The things I couldn't change And I will lay down my ego for you But it's hard sometimes to let it all come loose Oh, we are bound up so tight Conditioned from the fight Generations of wrongs became our truth And I lay here awake Thinking what you would say And you are always in my heart Burning strong from the start Now that you're gone your flame burns on Dawn through to dusk Please help me see your wisdom on my own when I am weak When there's trouble on every side When the rain clouds fill my mind When the words become so faded I cannot read Help me to fly or help me to fall Must I do it on my own all alone Days I'm scared for my life Days I cannot stop my mind Days I know that I can see but I am blind And when the rain finally falls and I have no strength at all And I just wanna slip away And find your soul Give me strength Oh, Lord give me strength