Keepers of the Flame

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Allen Power

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He's burning the tar up Route 81
Out of the darkness, into the sun
Of a summer day, far from the mines and the mills
He's high on coffee and low on gas
Pulling out of the current and into the past
Looking for his people, the People of the Hills
Their songs are reaching out to him, the grasses wave with the sound
And their faces watch beneath the sacred ground

He's riding the winds of another time
Where he's known by a different name
Going home to the Keepers of the Flame

It's sixteen years since he left this town
Chasing a dream that wouldn't slow down
And leaving behind the ancient ways of his brothers
But the White Man's world is drivin' him mad
The work is unhealthy, the medicine bad
And the only true love he ever had found another
Now he feels the beat of the water drum pulsing through his veins
And he longs to sit by the longhouse fire and close the circle again

He's riding the winds of another time
Where he's known by a different name
Going home to the Keepers of the Flame

Where the otter swims and the river bends
There's a spirit journey, a life on the mend
Down in the heart of the Onondaga Nation
The elders sit by the council fire
Tobacco smoke billowing high
With a prayer for the seventh generation
And time may take him far away
But no matter where it flows
His heart's ablaze and his eyes, they shine like coals

And he's riding the winds of another time
Where he's known by a different name
Going home to the Keepers of the Flame

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