Steve Young - We've Been Together On This Earth Before lyrics

We've been together on this earth before Down in New Mexico With the red of the skin We were Indian That was a long time ago We stood and gazed at the moon like this Stood here loving the stars We swam the rivers in the forest below Before the coming of the cars Well we had the rains And we had the winds Our lands they knew no ends We were satisfied to live and to die In the ways of the Indian Ah but gone are the ways that we used to know Gone is the peace of old Now all is out on a frantic road In search of the vanishing gold We are born white men now We must do what we can Even though the suffer the land Perhaps there is something we can do on this earth Come and I'll take your end For dimmed are the stars That we used to know The rivers they run unclean The earth cries out, but she is not heard Except in the Indian dream Ah may the hills of your life Not be too steep May the old ways not run too deep May the season's of your youth Be as graceful as then When we were brothers of the wind My son, my son I'm glad you're born For we rode together as one We were free back then, we were men back then When we were the Indian