WE CAN'T WALK THIS ROAD ALONE

By David Snyder

https://soundcloud.com/david-snyder-gigs4/we-cant-walk-this-road-alone

So, a few nights ago I had a horrible Christmas nightmare and I dreamed the world was being taken over by AI songs and AI songwriting robots in Nashville, LA and New York. I wanted to shoot myself.

Then I was visited by the Ghost of Christmas Bono. I said, "Bono man this terrible. I don’t want to live anymore. I don’t even want to live to Christmas Day." He said:

“Do you have one acoustic guitar?”

I said, “Yes. Actually ten, but yes.”

He said: “Do you have one electric guitar and four chords?”

I said: “Yes. Well eight, but yes. And seven chords.”

He said: “Do you have at least one piano, one synth, and one voice, and one copy of Band-in-a-Box?”

I said: “Yes.”

He said. “One. All you need is one. Because we are one love, one blood, one life, you got to do what you should, One life with each other, Sisters, brothers, One life, but we're not the same, We get to carry each other, carry each other. Got it?”

I said: “Bono, I got it man. Thank you Christmas Spirit.”

The next morning, this song came into my head. I sat down at the piano and played what I heard in my head one time all the way through, and sang along, recording it. I kept the piano as is from that first take, re-did the vocals, and played everything else except for a few real tracks. No AI robots were injured in the recording of this song.

Merry Christmas. This is probably my last song of the year.


WE CAN'T WALK THIS ROAD ALONE
Words and music by David Snyder

https://soundcloud.com/david-snyder-gigs4/we-cant-walk-this-road-alone

V1

In every dream I've ever had
In every hope I've ever known
My heart just ached to see
I wasn't on this road alone
And when I look around
I see a billion lonely eyes
All these people that I see
They're still looking for their home

PC

We might have a different heaven
We might believe in different things
We might pray to different gods
But one thing makes us all the same

CH

At one time we closed our eyes
Just before we fell sleep
We dreamed of someone we could trust
Just one love that we could keep
So when the world falls all apart
There’ll be someone we can hold
And it's been that way forever
Cause we can't walk this road alone

V2

I’ve taken three shots to the heart
Almost each and every day
Been attacked in mind and soul
They tell me life is just that way

PC

Some can't stand to see the morning
They say it brings them too much pain
Some say the same about the sundown
But one thing makes us all the same

CH

At one time we closed our eyes
Just before we fell sleep
We dreamed of someone we could trust
Just one love that we could keep
So when the world falls all apart
There’ll be someone we can hold
And it's been that way forever
Cause we can't walk this road alone
we can't walk this road alone

All music and lyrics copyright 2025 by David Snyder
ASCAP/Day of Faith Records

David Snyder: Vocals, piano, acoustic and electric guitars (Taylor, Telecaster), synth, strings, addition instrumentation, mixing mastering, production.

Real Tracks

3455: Bass Electric
American 16thsSteveABEv16
4502Piano, ElectricVintage,Rhythm

David Snyder
Songwriter/Renaissance Man
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