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DATE: Monday, May 18, 1891

LOCATION: Buffalo Gap, South Dakota

SCENE: After a cross-continent trip by rail, the witness arrives in Buffalo Gap, South Dakota, the location of a recent massacre of fifty members of the Pine Ridge Reservation. Driven to this remote location by a host of the dead wishing to be returned to their ancestral home, he embarks on a terror-filled journey to Pine Ridge with instructions and provisions from the townspeople who are not willing to travel with him into Sioux territory because of the recent unrest.

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Ten miles down
Beyond the last homestead
Ten miles down
Where the bulrush grows
And the blackbirds nest

Strange lights pulsing
Dark things prowling
As the pale lamps flicker

Ten miles down
You’ll find the river bends
Ten miles down
Swift waters flow
Past a great oak stand

Old limbs withered
Dead eyes watching
As the gnarled hands twist and turn

Something’s calling me
Away from this life
The dead have followed me
Miles and miles from home

I’ll wait all night
‘Til the spirits pass
Stand watch ‘til the light
Beats the shadows back

Rise high sun fire
Bright light
Push these voices out of my head

Something’s calling me
Away from this life
The dead have followed me
Miles and miles from home

Something’s calling me
Away from this life
The host that’s watching me
Wants to swallow me up whole

credits

from In the Shadow of the Seven Stars, track released March 19, 2021
Aaron Kerr – Bass
Brett Hansen – Electric Guitars
Jeff Crandall – Vocals, Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Organ
Justin DeLeon – Drums

Engineered by: Setve Murray and Randy Gildersleeve
Mixed by: Jeff Crandall and Randy Gildersleeve
Mastered by: Tom Garneau
Produced by: Jeff Crandall

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