Highway of Tears - Layla Zoe

Shadowed faces growing long on the sand

All disgraces in my native land

Sun goes up, sun goes down in the mountains

Whispering secrets of an untold story

We’re asking for answers into thousands of silent heartbeats

We’re asking for answers in the dark

Can you hear them crying?

Their voices lost in the fog and the fear

Something’s just not right on the highway of tears

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

How can we turn our backs on what’s left of their families

How can we call ourselves proud in this cemetery

How can we stand tall

When we say we know the difference between wrong and right

Will the sun come up again

And show us the light

Little bones and the silence of a beaded history of abuse and power

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