[Intro: Ambient nightscape—wind rustling through acacia, distant water trickling, faint bat chirps echoing, joined by slow, echoing tribal hums and a soft rhythmic wooden percussion pulse.] [Verse 1] When daylight fades and silence calls, We rise from caves and shadowed walls. The Straw-coloured Fruit Bat claims the skies, In soaring arcs where darkness lies. We fly in swarms like whispered lore, The Serengeti’s breath at dusk’s door. [Chorus] Wings of silence, dance of night, Eyes unseen in fading light. Through jungle air and starlit hush, The bats take flight with midnight’s rush. In shadow’s arms, we roam unseen, The keepers of the twilight scene. [Verse 2] Ethiopian Epauletted, crowned and sly, Feeds on nectar, sweeps the sky. With calls that pierce the floral gloom, A velvet ghost in nature’s room. Epaulettes bright in mating’s flame, A secret spark, a whispered name. [Chorus – Stronger vocal layering, light female harmony under melody] Wings of silence, dance of night, Eyes unseen in fading light. Through jungle air and starlit hush, The bats take flight with midnight’s rush. In shadow’s arms, we roam unseen, The keepers of the twilight scene. [Verse 3] The Large Slit-faced Bat, a silent blade, Sweeps past leaves in midnight shade. It hunts by echo, not by eye, A ghost that makes the night things die. With every flick, it carves the air, Its cry a blade, its heart laid bare. [Chorus – Darker, more intense; add flute echo of bat chirps] Wings of silence, dance of night, Eyes unseen in fading light. Through jungle air and starlit hush, The bats take flight with midnight’s rush. In shadow’s arms, we roam unseen, The keepers of the twilight scene. [Verse 4] Banana Serotine, small and swift, Weaves through groves in silent lift. Tiny, fierce, a hunter keen, In flickering paths of silver sheen. From leaf to breeze, it dodges fate, A blur that shapes the twilight’s state. [Final Chorus – Lush vocal layering, ambient cave echoes, full harmonic lift] Wings of silence, dance of night, Eyes unseen in fading light. Through jungle air and starlit hush, The bats take flight with midnight’s rush. In shadow’s arms, we roam unseen, The keepers of the twilight scene. [Outro: Faint heartbeat-like percussion fades, echoing chirps and hums slowly dissolve into the nighttime ambience. A soft gust of wind, and then silence.]
