Voices Travel The Wind (Hey Na Na Na Nay) was written to commemorate the individual spirits of the murdered indigenous children in the Catholic run residential schools in western Canada. Unmarked graves are still being found and thousands of children died at the schools but the true number may never be known. Metis songwriter, Dustin Harder, uses a harp outdoors to harness a strong wind to capture the sound of the children's "voices” – Hey Na Na Na Nay. (Never Again) The sound is haunting and necessary for truth and justice to prevail.

Lyrics

Voices travel the wind
Travel the wind
Travel the wind
We've been gone away for a while

Voices travel the wind
Travel the wind
Travel the wind
We've been gone away for a while

Something different was the reason
Good intention was the goal
And all the lies they’ve told we finally know

Had we only told you
In words, just how we feel
We might have been assured
Had we only told you

Hey na na na nay
Hey na na na nay
Hey na na na nay
Hey na na na nay

Where did we go wrong?
How'd we lose our innocence?
An influence arrived
Brought upon by ignorance

Had we only told you
In words, just how we feel
We might have been assured
Had we only told you

Hey na na na nay
Hey na na na nay
Hey na na na nay
Hey na na na nay

Hey na na na nay
Hey na na na nay
Hey na na na nay
Hey na na na nay

Voices travel the wind
Travel the wind
Travel the wind
We've been gone away for a while

Voices travel the wind
Travel the wind
Travel the wind
We've been gone away for a while

Something different was the reason
Good intention was the goal
And all the lives they hid we finally know

Had we only told you
In words, just how we feel
We might have been assured
Had we only told you

Hey na na na nay
Hey na na na nay
Hey na na na nay
Hey na na na nay

Hey na na na nay
Hey na na na nay
Hey na na na nay
Hey na na na nay

Had we only told you

Hey na na na nay
Hey na na na nay
Hey na na na nay
Hey na na na nay

Had we only told you

Hey na na na nay
Hey na na na nay
Hey na na na nay
Hey na na na nay