Where the river flows

There’s a road that runs past cottonwoods

Where the dust don’t ever settle right

Leads you up to Ghost Dancers’ Hill

Where the drums still echo in the night

They say the wind don’t blow up there

It listens close, it don’t forget

Every prayer that rose like fire

Still hangs in that sunset

Pre-Chorus

And the elders speak in quiet tones

’Bout things you feel but never see

Chorus

Down by the Missouri, she called their names

Carried their stories through wind and rain

Mothers and daughters, gone without a trace

Just whispers left in a sacred place

And the river rolls like it always will

Past broken hearts and Ghost Dancers’ Hill

If you stand real still, you might just hear

All the ones that disappeared

Verse 2

There was a girl with raven hair

Braids tied tight with a ribbon of blue

Last seen walking toward the ridge

Where the sky splits open in two

Her mama waits by the porch light still

Like she’s coming home at dawn

But the stars above that ancient hill

Know something’s wrong

Pre-Chorus

And every shadow tells a truth

This land remembers more than we do

Chorus

Down by the Missouri, she called their names

Carried their stories through wind and rain

Mothers and daughters, gone without a trace

Just whispers left in a sacred place

And the river rolls like it always will

Past broken hearts and Ghost Dancers’ Hill

If you stand real still, you might just hear

All the ones that disappeared

Bridge

It ain’t just history buried deep

It’s living pain we’re meant to see

In every flyer, every tear

Every voice that won’t disappear

The drums still beat beneath the ground

They’re calling out, they’re crying loud

Final Chorus

Down by the Missouri, don’t wash it away

Let every name be heard and stay

No more silence, no more fear

We’re still calling, bring them near

And the river rolls, but we stand still

On sacred ground at Ghost Dancers’ Hill

Till every voice is loud and clear

For the ones who disappeared

Outro

Yeah the river keeps their names

And we won’t let them fade