Name: Long Walk Home
Duration: P00H04M55S
Description: The gov'ner commissions a group to cross the desert, tear open the fabric of time, enter into the unknown, gather the secrets of the universe, and return to tell the tale.

Long Walk Home

from Closer To The Setting Sun by Andrew Vait

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The gov'ner commissions a group to cross the desert, tear open the fabric of time, enter into the unknown, gather the secrets of the universe, and return to tell the tale.

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One in a million
Or so we were told
We received orders from the gov’ner
Cross the desert; seek the wisdom
Fetch it from the farthest fold

The sunlight fighting furious
In the sky a single hawk
The desert with its secrets
We gathered for the walk

The long walk home

We have one story to tell
Good God and it’s a good one
You will remember it well
For passing to your children
These motions begged in our heads
For congregation
So we give you peace in your beds
And you may rest well
You sent the best
We lay your sleepy, weeping
Weary heads to rest

Jesus Christ you would not believe me
If I told you what I saw
Beyond the desert’s charade
Yes we tore down all the walls

The dance was something brilliant
Blazing flurries; winds of sand
We trembled with the knowledge
Of the eternal man

And turned to face long walk home

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from Closer To The Setting Sun, released June 10, 2011
Andrew Vait – acoustic guitar, vocals, banjo
Brent Rusinow – upright bass
Andy King – drums, shakers
Steve Norman – pedal steel guitar
RL Heyer – guitar, backing vocals
Tony Kevin Jr. – backing vocals

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Andrew Vait Seattle, Washington

Andrew Vait lives in Seattle, WA and writes far-reaching folk-pop songs.

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