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Thinking Like a Mountain - Yann Tiersen (Ft. John Grant & Stephen O'Malley)
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Thinking Like a Mountain - Yann Tiersen (Ft. John Grant & Stephen O'Malley)
A deep chesty bawl echoes from rimrock to rimrock
Rolls down the mountain, and fades into the far blackness of the night
It is an outburst of wild defiant sorrow
And of contempt for all the adversities of the world
Every living thing (and perhaps many a dead one as well)
Pays heed to that call
To the deer it is a reminder of the way of all flesh
To the pine a forecast of midnight scuffles and of blood upon the snow
To the coyote a promise of gleanings to come
To the cowman a threat of red ink at the bank
To the hunter a challenge of fang against bullet
Yet, behind these obvious and immediate hopes and fears
There lies a deeper meaning known only to the mountain itself
Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of a wolf
Those unable to deciper the hidden meaning know nevertheless that it is there
For it is felt in all wolf country, and distinguishes that country from all other land
It tingles in the spine of all who hear wolves by night
Or who scan their tracks by day
Even without sight or sound of wolf, it is implicit in a hundred small events
The midnight whinny of a pack horse, the rattle of rolling rocks
The bound of a fleeing deer, the way shadows lie under the spruces
Only the ineducable tyro can fail to sense the presence or absence of wolves
Or the fact that mountains have a secret opinion about them
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