3 minutes • September 27, 2019
In the path, I used the original melody for the verses and composed a companion chorus, bridge and ending to create a completed song structure. The lyrics are advice from a father to a daughter. I tried to imagine, what you would say to a child in such a hopeless and desolate world?
Appears on The Last of Us Remixed
| GUSTAVO SANTAOLALLA | Composer | ASCAP |
| SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT AMERICA (SCEA) | Original Publisher |
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One day my father
Took my face in his hands
He said: “This is the path we’ve chosen;
This is the bed we’ve made.”
“No turning back now,
Wipe those tears from your eyes.
One day I won’t be here,
One day you’ll walk it alone.”
“When there’s no one left to mourn,
Keep walkin’ on” he said;
“Keep walkin’ on.”
“When the good old days are long gone,
Keep on walkin’ on” he said;
“Keep walkin’ on the path.”
“Cause you just might find
Something worth living for;
Or, you just might find
Something worth dying for;
Or, you just might find nothing at all.”
“But if you should be the last of us to walk it…
And these days, they bleed together so,”
He said: “Don’t you even worry;
Just keep on the path.”
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