California Saga: The Beaks Of Eagles letra

An eagle's nest on the head of an old redwood
On one of the precipice-footed ridges above Ventana Creek
That jagged country which nothing but a fallen meteor will ever plow
No horseman will ever ride there
And no hunter'd cross this ridge but the winged ones

No one will steal the eggs from this fortress
The she-eagle is old, her mate was shot long ago
She is now mated with a son of hers
When lightning blasted her nest she built it again on the same tree
In the splinters of the thunder bolt

In a broken shack, an old man takes his time about dyin'
And just at the back, a wild flowerbed that he'll lie in
In dawn's new light a man might venture
A horse-drawn stage from Monterey

The she-eagle is older than I, she was here
When the fires of eighty-five raged on these ridges
She was lately fledged and dared not hunt ahead of them
But ate scorched meat

The world has changed in her time, humanity has multiplied
But not here, men's hopes and thoughts and customs have changed Their powers are enlarged
Their powers and their follies have become fantastic

Spilled down the hill a wagon load of bodies lay scattered
Shipwrecked at sea, limestone ore is all that mattered
They took it from the hills, right in through the cargo doors
And how many ships have come and gone at Thurso's landing shore?

The unstable animal never has been changed so rapidly
The motor and the plane and the great war have gone over him
And Lenin has lived and Jehovah died while the mother-eagle
Hunts the same hills, crying the same beautiful and lonely cry

And is never tired, dreams the same dreams
And hears at night, the rock-slides rattle and thunder
In the throats of these living mountains
It is good for man to try all changes
Progress and corruption, powers, peace and anguish

Not to go down the dinosaur's way
Until all his capacities have been explored
And it is good for him to know that his needs and nature
Are no more changed, in fact
In ten thousand years than the beaks of eagles

Eagle's plight, we know that nature's balance is undone
Though it's the birthright of man to unify and live his life as one
A whisper of the word will let you soar with your soul