Reluctant Journey Lyrics - Singles - Wolfstone

(Wayne Mackenzie) 

"Not another protest song about our pitiful past," I hear you cry. Well hopefully, there's a 

different slant to this one. Anyway, you can make your own mind up on that one. 

Familiar coastlines to unfriendly shores 

Home was home, no not anymore 

Kingdom of Summer, written in stone 

Your brothers and lovers crossed the ocean alone 

Clearance of land, that was their birthright 

Moving through hell that and highrights 

Reluctant journey out of the sun 

Whatever became of your country's sons 

No turning back, not one to run away 

Fighting more than the elements they say 

Across to the new, cast from the old 

What laid before them, what they were told 

A brave new world, theirs for the taking 

One more clearance of the land in the making 

Strike out for the West, bounty, land and liberty 

To die in the new, for the old it was easy 

To the native tongues, it was Indian summers 

Raped on the land, covered with banners 

Starts and stripes over bullets and blood 

Chased from the Nations, 'cross Rio Grande mud 

Two hundred years past, covered wagons gone 

Taken their place in what progress has borne 

Of native tongues, old worlds pushed aside 

Roadside reservations, small wonder little pride