Hummingbird and the Smoking Mirror
Went down to Fellini’s to grab a beer
Ask me about anything, except my career

Oh, I know all about you and the cosmic balance
Trust me, I bear you no ill will, not a mote of malice
What we need is a plan -- I’ll be your ears and eyes
If we don’t outsmart them, then we will be out-prophesied

Hummingbird and the Smoking Mirror
Tossed all night, turning over their fears
Both of them dreamt of a face scarred by tears

Clawing up on the world’s back they heard a spirit weeping
Recklessly exposed, there will be no peaceful keeping
The world known -- it’s about to get topsy turvy
The victor, he who questions the least and shows no mercy

Word passed from one strange language into another then another
The night sky with its mask of stars providing just a bit of cover
What are their intentions, these intruders with their shiny skin
Can’t help but look at their chests and see a potential offering

When war is your desert, when war is your task
And everything’s determined by the questions you can’t ask
The soothsayer came to read the signs, and that’s your destiny
But she didn’t know about the white gods and all the things she’d never seen

Hummingbird and the Smoking Mirror
Were here and then they disappeared
Was it something said, what did they overhear?

Did they abandon us in our hour of need
Are we to bow to our fate? Either way we’re bound to bleed
Here on this island, where we first saw the eagle perch
On a cactus, snake in mouth, the end of our unending search

Hummingbird and the Smoking Mirror, had their chance but now it’s gone
On the cusp of a new age but darkness seeps into this dawn
Temple on fire, the sky, the northern lights
Where do we belong, in their new world of our lives