[“Sky Don’t Answer / Fire Still Speaks”] [deep drumbreath… stomps… breath… sax wail in the distance] [Intro stomp chant] Huh—ha! Huh—ha! Feet to earth, call the sky— We don’t whisper, we don’t hide [Verse 1 Earth – chant rhythm] Stamp the ground till the dust will rise Call the clouds with burning eyes Hands to flame, we carve the air Spirits moving everywhere Bones remember, snow and rain Every loss inside the vein Circle tighter, grows strong Night will have to hear our song [Hook Earth, collective] Rain! — come down! Fire! — hold ground! Sky! — turn around! Hear us now! Hear us now! [sax answers, wild and bending] [Verse 2 Aliens – cold, distant, almost spoken] They stay in outer space and only shake their heads Silent orbits filled with threads Patterns we will never trace They erase us into space “It’s too ugly there, why should we come?” Cold like zero, cold and numb No drum, no breath, no living scar Just the distance where they are [Break Haka-style confrontation] [Earth stomp / body percussion]: Who are you to turn away? We are night and we are day! [Aliens flat, echoing]: You are noise that fades too fast Not a future—only past [Earth louder, defiant]: We are fire that scars the sky! We are those who do not die! [Aliens]: We remain, we drift, we see You are bound to gravity [Sax Interlude free, crying, circling melody] [imagine bending tones, like wind over plains, like voices without words] [Verse 3 Earth – rising, almost ecstatic] Let it burn into the rain Let it carve into the pain If they never walk this land Still the flame is in our hands Ash to skin and skin to sound We are more than what they’ve found Every stomp a thunder call We are ugly—we are all [Final Chorus explosive, layered] Rain! — come down! Fire! — don’t drown! Stars! — look down! We are now! We are now! [Outro overlapping realities] [Aliens (fading, fragmented]: We stay in outer space… …only shake our heads… …it’s too ugly there… [Earth breathing, steady, grounded]: Stay away or hear the flame We don’t need to be the same In the smoke our truth will rise Even if it scars the sky [last sound: a lone sax note… then a final stomp]
