The Long Trail 🎸

gothic rock ballad, deep male vocals, melancholy, atmospheric keyboards, powerful chorus, heavy bass [Verse 1] There’s no use going back, or turning-to-white again, There’s the land where you belong, for you’ve seen it all in vain, And every familiar warning and word is a heavy chain, So follow the trail in the dark where the wild winds blow the rain! [Chorus] Where there’s no going back on the oath that you took, where the tears of the past are dry, On the edge of the world where the stormy road runs under a limitless sky! Through the river of mist and the jagged peaks where the sea-birds wheel and cry, Keep moving ahead till the night is dead and the bitter winds go by! [Verse 2] By the brand of the road, by the toll of the tide, by the rush of the open deep, By the lonely watch in the freezing dark when the rest of the world’s asleep, Where the shadowy waters pull at the boat in a cold and silent chill, And the winds keep howling across the waste and the heavy shadows spill! [Chorus] Where there’s no going back on the oath that you took, where the tears of the past are dry, On the edge of the world where the stormy road runs under a limitless sky! Through the river of mist and the jagged peaks where the sea-birds wheel and cry, Keep moving ahead till the night is dead and the bitter winds go by! [Guitar Solo] [Bridge] Though the compass is shattered and stars are gone in the black and heavy pall, And the boat drives hard through the tearing surf where the roaring breakers fall,— [Outro] We know the track that the blind world missed, and the secret path we trace, While the rigging hums with a wild old song and the wind blows in our face! [Fade to acoustic guitar]