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Home of the Brave

from Immaterial Witness by Phoen1x

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lyrics

Two Trees was a Native man
His life began to fade
Few could run the race he ran
Or live the life he made
Alone on Hunter Island
For more than fifty years
No white man ever saw him
No red man dried his tears

(chorus)
He was the last Algonquin
Sole survivor of his kind
The last Algonquin
Out of sight and out of mind
In the home of the brave

I was a boy on Hunter Island
Searching in the wild
Studying the animals
A most precocious child
One day Two Trees found me
He said, “Good day, I am Joe”
And he began to teach me
Secret things that Indians know

(chorus)

He said a plan comes from the Maker
And ripens in the heart
In prayer a path is taken
In dreams the plan will start

Gradually I came to know
That I had been the first
In over half a century
When white men were the worst
He chose to pass on what he could
To a young inquisitive boy
Before he traded mortal pain
For bright Eternal joy

(chorus)

The last time I saw Two Trees
Was Christmas Eve of ’24
Joe was desperately ill
Past the reach of Indian lore
I ran to tell my father
And he and Mom agreed
We’d bring the Indian to our house
And warm him in his need

On Christmas Day we hurried forth
With fresh snow on the ground
We rushed to Joe’s encampment
But he was not around
No fire had been lit
No trail in the snows
Joe was far away
Across the Milky Way he goes…

(chorus)

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from Immaterial Witness, released September 17, 2020
© 2020 Peter Jorgensen BMI

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Phoen1x now expands into the future as he prepares a series of releases. "Immaterial Witness" will be the first followed by "Dreams." Both will contain long and progressive songs but "Dreams" will be truly epic. The album will include "Horizon's Dream," a twenty-five minute long look at yesterday and tomorrow. ... more

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