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Along The Road

from High Desert Hymns by Jake Shane

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There are people wrapped in rags
All along the road
Some are laughing, some are crying
Some are young and some you know

Some are mystics and magicians
Don't leave them behind
Some are traveling musicians
Best to treat them kind

Some are telling stories
Tall tales of falls from grace
Some are going nowhere
Some are desperate to escape

Oh my mother
Oh my father
Are you still awake?
I have been here many years
But some nights I'm still afraid

Some are worried about the future
Of the working class
Some are troubled by the thunder
Some are transfixed by the flash

Some are staring at the stars
As they cross the sky
Some are tracing all their patterns
To help them steer at night

Some are rambling, some are rollin'
Some are loved in vain
Some are building fires
Some are digging graves

Oh my mother
Oh my father
Are you still awake?
I have been here, many years
But some nights I'm still afraid

Some are dancing in a trance and
Some are keeping time
Some are searching for some meaning
In some very ancient lines

Some are silently observing
The movements of their mind
Some are happy just to be there
Thanking someone they're alive

Some are prisoners of a war
That they never waged
Some are praying there's another world
Where some of them are saved

Oh my mother
Oh my father
Are you still awake?
I have been here, many years
But some nights I'm still afraid

Everybody walking
How far no one knows
Some are mothers, some are fathers
All are children of the road

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from High Desert Hymns, released December 4, 2020

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Jake Shane Madrid, Spain

Jake Shane is an American singer-songwriter based in Madrid, Spain.

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