At dusk we left the shelter of our homes
With pain so deep we felt it in our bones
We knew it wasn't safe to wait another day
One final glance, then we had to turn away
Torchlit roads
Choked and lined with falling ash
A desperate flight
Hot winds burning at our back
No destination, no place to call our own
We couldn't name the sins for which we must atone
Symbols of the life we left behind
Laid with reverence upon the pyre
A thousand suns aglow, a new horizon line defined
Stand in vigilance before our signal fires
On the way we gathered others to our side
Those who endured and vowed to stay alive
For every one that fell, another took their place
Through sheer force of will, we kept each other sane
In the wild
No map to mark the path
All we knew
We were never coming back
One day we'll find a place to call our own
The road is hard but we aren't traveling alone
Symbols of the life we left behind
Laid with reverence upon the pyre
A thousand suns aglow, a new horizon line defined
Stand in vigilance before our signal fires
And though we bore our wounds with dignity
Deep histories of pain
We found our strength and built anew on stranger ground
Primal force retained
And though the way is hard
And though the wounds are deep
We struggle onward to our eternal sleep
Upon the broken path
Through agonies of grief
Until the end, refuse to know defeat