[Verse 1 - traveling, the first rumor] We rode three days before the first one Stopped us at the road An old woman with flour on her hands And a story she needed told
She spoke of someone passing through Some weeks before we came Who asked for nothing, left them fed Who never gave her name
[Pre-Chorus] And then the next town said the same And the next and the next and more A White Woman walking through the east Leaving life where there was none before
[Chorus - the journey, a gathering wonder] East bound Following a road that’s waking up East bound Every village fuller than before East bound Something moved through here before us East bound And the east keeps asking us for more
[Verse 2 - the details accumulating] They rebuilt the market from nothing No one knows exactly how She worked beside them in the mud She never took a bow The rivers run clear now they tell us The fields remember how to grow The children are not afraid to gather And the people are not afraid to go
[Pre-Chorus 2 - the detail that lands] They all say the same face The same hands The same way of being there They all say - a woman with a true smile They all say - and red
Red hair
[Chorus] East bound Following a road that’s waking up East bound Every village fuller than before East bound Something moved through here before us East bound And the east keeps asking us for more
[Bridge - Elara, still, something in her face] I did not ask them to keep talking. They kept talking.
Systems rebuilt but for good this time. People fed - not controlled. Prayers - but not to any church. Just to something good.
And everywhere the same description. Not her name. They do not know her name. They only know what she left behind.
[long pause]
Red hair. A smile that is true.
[— the scream —]
[silence] [PAUSE] [PAUSE}
East. The smoke is east. [HEAVY GUITARS] [Final Chorus - hard cut, all wonder gone] East bound Something is dying where she walked East bound The smoke is rising over good land East bound We heard the scream before we saw it East bound We ride
[Outro] We ride. Now.