Circle Strong is a song that Terry Garchinski wrote with youth at Northern Addictions Youth Inhalant Program in September 1995.  Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.

CIRCLE STRONG     
© Terry Garchinski 1995

Looking in your big brown eyes
Can’t hide the tears or the lies
So much pain its been there too long
And now you are here and you’re so strong

I take your hand and walk with you tonight
We’ve walked in darkness but now we’re in the light
I feel your pain I’ve walked this road before
Let’s raise our voices and walk through that door.

CHORUS:   
Let’s keep the circle strong:  I’ll be me and you be you
Together we’ll sing: “We will all be true.”
Let’s keep the circle strong:  I’ll be me and you be you
Together we’ll sing: “Keep the circle strong.”

Looking at the eagle in the sky
Signs of hope, the elders cry
Words of wisdom, the healing has begun
And now it’s time to come together as one.  (chorus)

And now you are gone I hold you in my heart
One thousand miles we journeyed from the start
I’ll pray for you, please pray for me
You’re a beautiful butterfly born to be free.  (chorus)

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Terry recorded Circle Strong on his CD Healing Ground.