Endangered Species - Esperanza Spalding, Lalah Hathaway

She’s in danger, too

Human danger

Lone canary nesting near a runway whispers

Earthly strangers

Mighty jet planes fly you casually glancing

O’er seas and mountains

Too high to see this dying bird singing her swan song

No one hears it through the din as engines burn

Stars across the sky

Watch the caveman fly

Taking in the sights

Breathing out things die

Mother nature

Dying to reach you hasn’t heard from you in

Ages since when her young children

Listened to her songs with awe and reverence

Now adolescents growing fast and eating her heart

No more thank you’s no good mornings

Earthly dangers

What was once your modest home now

Swarms with cars and poison

Brown skies noise and playing with toys that kill you family

Blowing up the mountains foul oil fountains

Watch the caveman burn through the sky

The last canary screams her final song and dies while

Towards her nest crawl more sprawling towns

What burns up must come down

Human nature

Scrambling late to curb hard consequences

Young mankind so much potential

Time to heed Earth’s guidance

Though our science brought us to novel heights

We must come back to mother

First she’ll ground us the she’ll whisper

You were my most endangered species

She’s in danger, too