The Night Traveler

All songs written by M.Beatty / bluewingmusic / BMI
On a bleak plateau near the reservation line
Orville takes his flyer out, his instrument of time
He hurls it to the sky, into the great alone
Into a sky he calls his own

Orville is alone when Orville wants to see
Through the veils of time, his people's suffered history
He goes up to place where no one's ever been
And stays up there a long, long time...
Till you think he's never coming home again

He is a night traveler
On a silver web-like line
Caught between the stratosphere
And growing fear of time

The result of white blood ways within his tipi town
Leaves a lot of burning bridges, the reservation's falling down
The Government is blind to any way but it's own
Bound to a rule book of fire and brimstone

But Orville's love is as strong as Orville's love is deep
Carried by the wind sometimes, across the sky his soul to keep
But tenderness is tough and warriors have their way
To see into the future beyond the pain of yesterday

He is a night traveler
On a silver web-like line
Caught between the stratosphere
And the growing fear of time

Through the mountain window, through the grassy plain
Through a mire of rabbit brush, in the falling rain
He is a shadow on the darkest night
He is a blazing trail of billion year old light

Men of broken wisdom caught in cultures rake
Men of quiet fires found burning at the stake
His is a sacred gift of wilderness and wise
Taught by stars and talons in the ravens blood-black skies

He is a night traveler
On a silver web-like line
Caught between the stratosphere
And the growing fear of time

All day and all your life, forever may you hold
The blessing of the flyer, the calling of the soul


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