Lyrics

The hawk it circled in its shadow, and I felt so all alone
As I squinted in the sunlight, supported only by these bones

And the last I could remember, was how it felt to be alive
And the way we sought forever, in these skies

One by one I saw them falling, from the hills above the town
And I could not keep from crying, as they cut the giants down

And the last I could remember, was the city’s breath-like pain
Blowing on a yellow jet-stream, falling in the rain

Breathe in deep the black and acrid, full five hundred miles away
Giving thanks for those low levels, in our children as they play

And the last I could remember, I was choking in a haze
As the silence did approach us, in the final days

Turn my arms to leafy branches, root my feet in soil deep
May the love of all creation, keep our souls from restless sleep

And the last I could remember, was the final condo craze
And the way we stood so naked and amazed