"Song For An Oysterman (DEMO)" lyrics

The water rolls about his leg, his arm flashes to clutch the shell
Like the bear, the salmon, like the stream he observed in Naumkeag
Oh, in Naumkeag

Today he is the bear, in the winter he will be the deer
To stalk silently in the trees, to be cunning, cunning as a leaf
Oh, in Naumkeag

To kill the doe with one arrow
To the heart, it will not suffer long
And he will sing his song
To the deer, to the oysters, to the food he has gathered
Bringing home the life for his wife
For his children, for his friends, they will bow their heads
They will thank the life they eat, they will cook the meat
They will roll the plants into the pipe
The will make the medicine from the land

They will dance about the fire in their leather and their feather
They will imitate the animals that guide them
They'll feel the nature inside of them
Oh, inside of them

They will be the one shell and the nature will be the other
And together be an oyster, and grow the pearl of wisdom
That grows only with commitment to the oneness, to the oneness of all life
Oh, of all life

And he says yah, yah-yah, yah-yah, yah-yah
Yah-yah, yah-yah, yah-yah, yah-yah, yah, yah-yah
Yah, yah-yah
And he says yah, yah-yah, yah-yah, yah-yah
Yah-yah, yah-yah, yah-yah, yah-yah, yah, yah-yah
Yah, yah-yah
And he says yah, yah-yah, yah-yah, yah-yah
Yah-yah, yah-yah, yah-yah, yah-yah, yah, yah-yah
Yah, yah-yah
And he says yah, yah-yah, yah-yah, yah-yah
Yah-yah, yah-yah, yah-yah, yah-yah, yah, yah-yah
Yah, yah-yah

Today I walk down Broadway, the only path remaining
Of those who lived here first