Choir of Ancestors - Gazpacho

In the long line behind us of the fallen dominos

Are the faceless men and women

All the lives you will never know

In the darkest nights I live through

Hear them whisper in my dreams

«We are the oak of a thousand branches

And the roots have dug so deep»

Hold on through your desert

Oh hold on to the reins

Oh hold on to wonder

Our story in your veins

Once we were children

Above us burned the stars

And now we come to you in your darkest hour

As you are who we are

We would stare into our fires

As you have done tonight

Let the ashes know what’s right

Then you can decide

«Hold on you know what we know

Your dreams are our own

You’ll find out in time»

Oh hold on to memory

Hold on to the edge

Hold on to stories

The decision that you made

Oh find your direction

Oh hang on for your life

With yesterday just a blur or grey

Spinning in the wheels of time

The Great Wall of China

Is going to crumble in the end

And the graves that still surround it

Echo countless wasted men

In the brotherhood of factories

Where the bonds are forged in steel

By the hammer of redemption

In the fires of gasoline

So hold on to your brother

Hold on to your team

Oh fight your every hour 'cause

When it hurts you start to win

Oh hold on to something

You can do it if you try

There’s a wedge between the will and when

But the walls are closing in

We were thrown out of our lives

And across a great divide

But as long as you hold on

You keep us alive