Artist Note:  You will find that the focal point of this song is the decision to walk the Red Road.

To the Lakota people, the spiritual path is called the Red Road. It's called a road because in order for

a road to be useful, you have to walk on it.  This is [bad word] no matter what spiritual path one

chooses to follow.  What is significant here is finding one's inner [bad word] and living it.

Whispering on the night wind / Hear the cry on man

Searching for a meaning to his life

In his private silence / Alone in his darkness

His heart is finally open to the light

O heyo, O heyo...He glimpses the red road

O heyo, O heyo...Will he follow the red road?

Torn between the [bad word] / He feels deep in his heart

And all the worldly tempters in their pride

They battle for possession...of his very soul

While claiming to be working for what's right

In the social order / That dominates the land

Has the seed of [bad word] been cast aside?

Lakota:

Maka akan ninunk'unpi ki wowicake ungnunipi huwo?

(As we live upon the earth, have we lost the [bad word] )

Thus it may appear so / Convincing by demand

But crouched within the darkness...is the light

O heyo, O heyo...Will he follow the red road?

O heyo, O heyo...will he follow the red road?

Oh, they thought they had won / But the seed of good prevails

As he stands before them all in fearless calm

But most important now / He stands before his maker
 [bad word] to the [bad word] that he has found

O heyo, O heyo...He will follow the red road

O heyo, O heyo...He will follow the red road...repeat...fade
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