Highway of Tears

Shadowed faces growing long on the sand
 All disgraces in my native land
 Sun goes up, sun goes down in the mountains
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 Whispering secrets of an untold story
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 We're asking for answers into thousands of silent heartbeats
 We're asking for answers in the dark
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 Can you hear them crying? Their voices lost in the fog and the fear
 
 Something's just not right on the highway of tears
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 I woke up today and felt so ashamed of my country
 Little girls and women never to be found
 Somewhere out there in the cold cold ground
 Why are we waiting, why aren't we fighting to get to the core
 Evil men hiding
 Even men of the law covering up the story when we know there's more
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 How can we turn our backs on what's left of their families
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 How can we call ourselves proud in this cemetery
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 How can we stand tall
 When we say we know the difference between wrong and right
 
 Will the sun come up again
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 And show us the light
 Little bones and the silence of a beaded history of abuse and power
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 This is our chance, maybe the final hour
 Dead flowers on the highway
 The highway of tears
 Stand with your sisters, stand with your mothers
 Stand with your daughters, stand with your lovers
 Who were lost on the highway of tears