Stars Beyond Goodbye

(ooh) Far from the fields where our first names were called

They wrote our numbers in a cold white room

Pinned our youth beneath a borrowed moon

Mothers held their breath and let us go Fathers hid the fear

they could not show I keep your picture folded near my heart

Like a map that tells me who we are

If I drift beyond the signal line Will your prayers still reach

me in the night

If I fall between the stars unseen

Say my name where home has always been We were sent into

the dark to carry fire Young hearts under armor climbing higher

If we never cross this wounded sky again Tell our mothers,

tell our lovers, tell our friends We were here,

we were brave, we held the line

For the child not yet born beneath your light

Za

noor ah lai Ke so ra mbilu na (ahh) Through the fire

we call your names Through the silence we

remain

We were sent into the dark to carry fire Young hearts under

armor climbing higher If we never cross this wounded sky again Tell

our mothers, tell our lovers,

tell our friends

We were here, we were brave,

we held the line

For the child not yet born beneath your light (ooh)

Guide us home if home is still there

Guide them through the waiting air