DAVID:
There are bats, bats, bats
Flapping around
Just every now and then a bat crosses
And then every now and then another bat comes
Setting up the sonar sonar
Echolocation the sound comes out bouncing back and back
The sound picture
Picture the sound that comes
And the interference scattering,
Scattering the sound waves came and
Because of the interference pattern came clear sound picture
Inside the ear
The ear sees
The ear knows
The pattern that came in
The dark black, black
I could see perfectly in the pitch black
The sound the location came
The echolocation came in the sound came
And stirred and all the different
The echoes came in
The echolocation
The big ears came
And flapping into the wings
And the big ear collect the sound
Collecting the pool
With a map
An exact precise map of the exact location
The setting at the sound
The chattering
Speaking and listening and seeing and hearing
And seeing and speaking and listening
The signals coming
The tower
The RKO tower
With the signals coming
And the radio waves coming
The patterns crossed with the patterns
The other patterns came in
And then into the pool
We dropped into the pool
The dirt
The dirt came into the pool
And the waves
Circulates circulates, spreading
All over into the
Balancing
On top of the
Leaves, balancing on the top
The leaves
Balancing
Balancing on the top
So that just as I balanced in my boat
Balanced on my boat
The boat that balanced
Balance of the
Serene
That
Celine and Julie
Sitting
On the surface of the water in their boat
And the wavelets
Barely causing a ripple
Barely a disturbance
On the Sound

	IAN:

The sound of
The shore, the cat
The cat watches
The cat eyes
The big cat eyes watching
Watching the wire
Walking on the wire
The wire is the water
Falling
Falling off the wire is falling into the water
The careful
The boat that holds us
The wire that holds us in the air
Walking on a wire
Walking on the water
The balance is everything
Standing up is everything
Standing up and balancing is everything
You will get wet
You will fall
You will fall through the air
You will get wet
The rest is waiting
The wire is all
Walk on the boat
The eyes watch you
There are so many eyes watching you
They watch through the trees
The shore is full of them
Going
You out there
In the jungle
In the jungle there are
Big cats
Big cats in the jungle
There are mangoes
Mangoes and big cats
Mangoes and monkeys and big cats and big knives
Men with big knives
Slicing big animals
Slicing big trees
Slicing big coconuts
There are large pieces of metal
That are required to slice
So that we can take in the fruits
Of what we have cut open
You must cut open trees
You must cut open dirt
You must dig dirt with big metal blades
You must raise up the dirt and take it in
Take in the nutrients
Take in the fruit
There are animals and there are fruits
And all of this is energy for us
All of this is one for us
All of this
We have won
We stand on this.
I stand on this.
I am here and I claim this.
I claim this plantation
in the name of Spain
I claim this plantation
in the name of the colonies
I claim this plantation
in the name of this flag
This 1619
This 1714
This 1820
This 1917
This is a year.
This is our year.
This is always our year.
This is always our year again.
In this year
In the year of
In the year of our Lord
In this year
We claim
We claim this now
This is ours now
I have produced this.
I have walked upon this.
I have planted this in the ground.
This blade is in the ground.
This metal is in the ground.
This I am in the ground.
You will not move me.
You will not
This is mine now.

	DAVID:

Cowcatcher
Cow

	IAN:
Now

	DAVID:
Blade
Right into the plow
Plow through the tracks

	IAN:
Metal forward

	DAVID:
Destiny
Blazing, blazing guns
The metal that draws sparks
Draws sparks as it hits the rocks
And they smash to smithereens
As we go straight through
Make straight the plow
Straight through the plains
Settle the plains

	IAN:

Is mine
This earth
this beautiful
good earth
This beautiful, beautiful earth
This loam
This powder
The best to grow
The best to feed
The best to farm
The best to graze
This is yours.
This is mine.
Put them there.
Put the big animals there.
Put the small animals there.
Put our little children there.
Put us there
On the other side
Where the blades have taken us
Where the roads have taken us
Where the metal has taken us
Where the metal and wood has built and taken us
Take us there
Put us there
It is a demand.
It is my demand.
I have told you
I have entered you
And I have demanded you to move
I have demanded you to walk.
I have demanded you forward.
It is my will.
It is my will enacting within you.
It is my destiny.
It is your destiny.
It is because of me.
It is all because of me.
You needed me to live.
You cannot look behind you
And leave me behind you.
No matter how good you think you are
You need me to move you forward.
You need me to kick you in the ass.
You need me inside of you.
You need me in order to slice your blades.
You need me in order to stand on the land.
You need me in order to cross the water.
You need me in you
To get you from this place to that place
Where all the things you need are located.
You need me to take those things.
Do not disappoint me.
Do not discard me.
Do not deny me.
Accept me for what I am.
Accept you for what you are.
We are one thing
And I am in you and you will not deny me.

	DAVID:

Vacuum
Ionosphere
The air was split
And hold back the vacuum
And smacked together
The different smack
A smack came
And the Holy Ghost
Holy Hidden Ghost.
Holy Ghost.
This sheet
The wind blowing
The incredible blowing
Inside
These voices came
And the people came
With the bed sheets over their heads,
The bed sheets
And the big pointy hats
And they came
And the ghosts came out from the woodwork
The ghosts came and they said
We are wreaking an awful revenge
Right into these plains
The knife slices
The blood drips.
The ground is saturated

	IAN:

There are so many
You don't need to listen to all of them
There are so many
And you don't need to listen to all of them
There are so many voices
And just because they are there
You do not need to listen to all of them
Not all of them
Not all of them will help you
Not all of them
Just because they are loud
Just because they sound good
It doesn't mean you have to listen to them
You don't have to listen to them
You don't have to listen to all of them
There are quiet ones
Listen for the quiet ones
Listen underneath the loud ones
Listen for the quiet ones
Listen for the other ones
Their voices are not pretty
Their voices are not loud
But they are the voices you should listen to
They are the helping voices
They are the quiet voices
They are the other ones
They are dancing around your ear
They are dancing around your head
They are dancing around your eyes

	DAVID:
I think we have mice
We have mice
There’s mice in the cabin

	IAN:

There in the cabin

	DAVID:
I've been listening
I hear sounds
I hear you know when I’m lying in my cot at night
I’m listening and I’m trying to go to sleep
I can hear there’s a sound
There’s little people

	IAN:
Minor

	DAVID:
That are that are inhabiting a marginal space
And they want the crackers
They want the cheese
They want the rice
They want the grain
They want all the things
And are coming
They’re coming
And running a kind of alternative economy
A little kind of underneath the blanket
Under the blanket
The little alternative thing that is so, so…
blowing
Blowing the ashes
The last ashes
Out of the fire

	IAN:
The last of the organic burned dirt
The last of the logs
The last ash
The last crumbs
The last of our sticks
Of our bread
The last of our supplies
The last of all the heat that we have created
The softly dying embers
The sweetness
The sweetness of our foods
The Ukrainian fiddles that play
Off on the other side of the forest
The folk
The bison
The elk
The snowy night
Marginal understandings of distant locomotives
The sound of steam
The sound of the whistle
The sound of a moonless night