Stone Paths Remember - Ghân-buri-Ghân

I walk where the tall men never go

Under branch and root and stone

We are the watchers, old as rain

Drúedain, bound to hill and plain

They came with iron, fire, fear

Blackened skies, the end was near

Horses waited, hemmed in night

Steel and honor longing for the fight

They did not know the hidden ways

The breathing hills, the ancient maze

I spoke in truth, not for reward

The land itself had given word

I am Ghân-buri-Ghân, hear my name

I do not seek your songs or flame

But when the world stood on the edge

I showed the road, I made the pledge

Through secret paths, through earth and bone

I led them where the drums had groaned

They reached the dawn, they broke the chain

Remember us... remember my name

Stone remembers

Roots remember

We remember

We remember

(Hey-ya, hey-ya, hidden way)

(Hey-ya, hey-ya, ride to day)

Riders thundered through the dark

Breath of kings, a rising spark

Pelennor fields in morning's cry

Death stood still as hope rode by

I turned back to the quiet trees

No crown of gold, no bended knees

But Aragorn, with living eyes

Spoke a vow beneath the sky

"No axe shall fall, no fire roam

These woods forever are your home"

Not carved in stone, but sworn in breath

A promise stronger still than death

I am Ghân-buri-Ghân, forest-born

I stood unseen before the storm

Not written deep in common lore

But without us, they reach no shore

I do not hunt for glory's flame

Yet truth still carries weight and name

If songs are sung when wars are done

Let one speak of the hidden ones

We were here before your kings

We will be here when silence sings

The world is saved by hands unseen

By those who walk the paths between