Horizons Together

[Verse 1] Beneath the weight of ancient skies, we gather like embers, Footprints in the dust, a rhythm we remember. Hands carve the soil where the roots entwine, A thousand whispers hum, "The future is mine, yours, *ours* to design." [Chorus] Oh, we rise—oh, we rise—carried by the tide, A choir of shadows dancing side by side. The storm may bend us, but the light won’t hide, We are the river, and the river is wide. [Verse 2] The Ngoni’s breath weaves through the cracks of time, A fractured world softens, harmonized in rhyme. The Guembri pulses where the old roads fray, “Walk softer now,” the ancestors say, “but never look away.” [Call-and-Response] Lead: *Do you hear the calabash sigh?* Choir: *We breathe the same air, under the same eye.* Lead: *Can you feel the drum’s reply?* Choir: *One heartbeat, one horizon, one sky.* [Bridge] The Rhodes spills honey where the scars run deep, A desert guitar wails secrets we keep. Darkness may linger, but the dawn is ours— Turn the soil, turn the hour, turn the buried seeds to flowers. [Chorus] Oh, we rise—oh, we rise—carried by the tide, A choir of shadows dancing side by side. The storm may bend us, but the light won’t hide, We are the river, and the river is wide. [Outro] *(Instrumental outro: Guembri and Ngoni spiral, Talking Drum converses with the Rhodes, electric guitar riffs dissolve into the choir’s hum fading.)*