Darkness and Trees

We can see them from the plane

This long line of headlights coming through the darkness

(Off, off the airplane)

Ladies and gentlemen, you can take only your carry-on items

Checked luggage will remain in the hold

(Into the airport)

The captain and flight attendants tell everyone

To take their blankets and pillows off the plane

(Out of the windows)

We grabbed bottles of water too

No one has any idea where they're taking us

(Darkness and trees)

As we enter the airport all those car lights are still aimed at us

We're scared, they're probably scared too

The people here don't know what to expect off of these planes

The airport looks like something leftover from the cold war and Kevin's like

Oh my God, we've gone back in time

The whole procedure, the soldiers and all the formality

It just makes me really nervous

There's a giant map on the wall of the airport

And someone has written in red marker

You are here

Excuse me, I need to find a phone

I need to call my son

I'm sorry, the pay phones are out of order

They're all lined up at the airport pay phones

So eventually, we put an out of order sign on 'em

Just so we can get people on the busses

11:48PM, busses and drivers are now taking passengers to shelters

Not just in Cannon, but also to Gamble, Appleton, and farther communities

Of Lewisboard and Norris Arm and Glen

Our bus sits there forever

While all the others leave

Finally this other passenger gets on

This guy from the Middle East

Someone says he got questioned

Someone says he got searched

And now, he's on our bus

I tried to interview the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, but

They got more important things to do than to talk to me

That's when I see them, the plane people through the bus windows

The terror on their faces, they have no idea where they're goin'

They take me and my crew in a separate van and I'm lookin' out the window

Tryna see where we are, but it is pitch dark

Now I have flown over this area hundreds and hundreds of times

And it is just darkness

Hardly any lights anywhere

And now here I am, oh, my God, this is just so remote

Into the darkness (Stars and the moonlight)

Dark all around us (Nothing but darkness)

Out of the window (Into the darkness)

Darkness and trees

Every school bus we got is going back and forth all night

Out to the Salvation Army camp, we've delivered passengers from

Germany, England, and France

And around three in the morning

My bus is designated to take all these African people out there

(Into the darkness)

My family and I tried to see out the bus windows

No one tells us where we are going

Silence comes on the bus

We get outside and gander and you could hear a pin drop

My wife and daughter are scared

They ask me what is happening, but I do not know

Behind me, this big man comes up to me and he says in this low voice

What's that now?