Luke Payne - Redtail

from Round 31, Week 11 by Monday Morning 3AM Music Club

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lyrics

Southbound to Panama across the Caribbean Sea
Redtail glides like a memory and fades like a dream

Thermals rising from the water lift him toward the sun
The coast line sharpens into view as watches from above

He’s seen a lot commotion down there among the trees
Down there with the power lines and the smoking factories

Fifteen thousand feet over La Mares the air is thin and cool
Redtail sees a rising tide, more sinners and fools

Heard it whispered in the wind
Saw it written across the sky
Ancient voices calling out
Ageless spirits sigh

Redtrail is drifter, cool as burnished steel
He can see the plot unfold before they start rolling the reel

He’s been watching since long before the clever creatures came
With their restless energy and industry, with their progress and change

They're insatiable as a forest fire, they eat everything in sight
They disturb the stillness with noise and pollute the darkness with light

They put a wasteland of despair where the gardens used to grow
Nothing is sacred, everything must go

Heard it whispered in the wind
Saw it written across the sky
Ancient voices calling out
Ageless spirits sigh

Redtail surveys the slow dance of cloud shadows across the plains
He watches the river run to the ocean then fall from sky again

He doesn’t feel anger, he doesn’t feel fear or pain
As he sails across the horizon into the coming rain

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from Round 31, Week 11, released April 26, 2021

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