Stand Sentinel

For two hundred years I have watched the view from this exact spot

Once surrounded by my brothers, now I stand alone

One by one they have fallen, first to the fire, then by axe and saw

Machines have sped my loneliness… so much progress?

When you receive the mark of man, you know

You haven’t long in this world, oh

Stand, sentinel, stand

Seen the progress of man, progress of time

For two hundred years, vision, my tears

Oh stand, sentinel, stand

Now I have the mark

Tired limbs stretched out towards the Sun

Will tomorrow’s dawn be my last?

I can barely breathe

I can not feel extremities

Father Sun is but a glimpse

Or just a memory?

When you receive the mark of man, you know

You haven’t long in this world, oh

Stand, sentinel, stand

Seen the progress of man, progress of time

For two hundred years, vision, my tears

Oh stand, sentinel, stand

Seen the changes of man, changes of mind

All of these years, my people, my kind, we will stand, stand

I have cradled babies in my arms, given shelter from the storm

Now I must rest eternal rest, join my brothers in the Earth

Now my life is but a flicker in the flame of life itself

Was it all for nothing? All for nothing?

Soon, I will… I will have my answer

Stand, sentinel, stand

Seen the progress of man, progress of time

For two hundred years, vision, my tears

Stand, sentinel, stand

We will stand, oh stand

Now I have the mark!

Never fall!

Never fall!

Never fall!

Never fall!