We left our home by dark of night Joseph and my boy and I When all the gunmen were asleep We slipped into the forest We left everything behind Joseph and my boy and I Took only what we had to keep And the hopes they would not find us We prayed our prayers, we broke our bread With others who had even less Till finally all we had were dreams And we hoped that they would fill us We lived on roots and the bark of trees Joseph and my boy and me Drank the water from the stream And hoped it would not kill us A man offered a change of luck All we had for a cargo truck With fifty others in the back They shut the door behind us It got so hot we could not breathe Joseph and my boy and me When we arrived, the sky was black That's where I buried Joseph The river stole away my shoes The soles of both my feet were bruised My boy lay silent in my arms His dreams were deep and soundless The day was long, the sun was high A hammer on an anvil sky By the wall I fell and cried For death was all around us He found me there where I had slipped But handcuffed tied around my wrists Shackles tied around my legs As if I could escape you And since I could not hold my babe You took my only boy away And though I plead and though I beg You won’t say where he's gone to I'm tired now, my eyes are dry There’s only me alone tonight In a land I thought would be Ours if we could make it A land that welcomes strangers in A land that beckoned like a friend If I had the chance again I'd rather die than take him The holy family got away A simpler time, a simpler place And Egypt stretched out it's great hand To welcome them with mercy Now Joseph's dead out on the road My boy is gone and I don't know Where he is or where I am With every breath, it hurts me And you who stood at your great gates Watched us as we met our fate Then took our pride and stole our babes You will one day die of something But as you rest your weary head Your family close around your bed May your thoughts all fly instead To the ones who you gave nothing The naked one, the starving child Who crawled the final brutal miles Through blood and filth and rock and wild In the hopes of only living May the pain within you dwell And may it follow you to hell All alone in a lonely cell Forever unforgiven May the pain within you dwell And may it follow you to hell All alone in a lonely cell Forever unforgiven