from The Golden Spike, track released January 4, 2018
New music from our current project, THE GOLDEN SPIKE

A collaboration between The Lobbyists and playwright Don Nguyen

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Alex Grubbs - Lead vocals, guitar
Tommy Crawford - backing vocals, mandolin
Douglas Waterbury-Tieman - backing vocals, fiddle
Tony Vo - backing vocals, drums
Eloise Eonnet - backing vocals, tambourine
Raymond Sicam III - cello

[1]
Oh listen to the words that the old man said
Marred by the blood of his kin
If you give away your soul for a piece of gold
You can never get it back again

If you're in despair and you can't see hope
No matter how hard you try
Though the mountain is tall and the ridge is long
The valley’s on the other side

[2]
People lived here, good people lived here
Long before you came
They were wise in ways that you'll never know
Comin from the land of the lame

But the pride of man and desire to grow
Got em churned in the wheels of time
The mountain they knew was never overcome
To the valley on the other side

[3]
We all know, though the day be long
Where the sun will fall
Drops down west like a sinking stone
Giving color to the mountains tall

Though it be gone and the air grown cold
Every single night
We're gonna keep pushing, keep making our way
To the valley on the other side

[bridge]
Do you dare to feel the wind blow
On the back of a cliffside howlin
Hangin on with your weather-worn hands
And an inch of your life

Take a measure from the good book
Pray to God to see a new day rising
In the valley of the hard-won promised land