[Intro]
Some things change…
(Without a warning)
[Verse 1]
Maps written of the sky
(Unwind of wind… no flow to go)
Ancient highways bending (ending)
Maligning…
(Compass misaligning)
Currents once so faithful
(No longer current at all)
[Pre-Chorus]
Pressure lines are shifting
(Tilting unseen)
Magnetic memory drifting
(Between what was and what has been)
[Chorus]
When the headwinds rise
(We pay the price)
Every mile longer
(Makes the fragile weaker)
Wings against the weather
(Torn under pressure)
Routes unravel slow
(Where do we go?)
[Verse 2]
Jet stream fractures wide
(The scene far from a dream)
Impacting wind and tide
(A river turning sideways)
Storm fronts multiply
(Chaos in the skyways)
Signals out of season
(Nests left without reason)
Mismatched bloom and hunger
(Shorter summers, longer winters)
No longer stronger
[Bridge]
[Low Drone, Distant Thunder, Heartbeat Kick]
Atmospheric fracture
(Systemic capture)
[Build: Organ Swell, Pulsing Bass]
Circulation falters
(Climate alters)
[Chorus – Expanded]
When the headwinds rise
(We pay the price)
Every mile longer
(For the fragile… even bleaker)
Currents once aligned
(Now misaligned)
What carried us before
(Doesn’t anymore)
[Breakdown – Spoken Over Minimal Beat]
Jet stream bending
(Resources ending)
Timing lost
(At what cost?)
Thermal columns fading
(Migrations fraying)
Energy debt climbing
(Out of rhythm, out of timing)
[Final Chorus – Bigger, Layered Harmonies]
When the headwinds rise
(We recognize)
The cost of fire
(We fed desire)
Routes undone
(Under the sun)
We feel the strain
(Of altered rain)
[Outro]
Maps were written in the sky…
(We rewrote them)
Line by line
(“Mine by “mine”)
Unwind time
(Against the wind)
The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment
From the album “North Flew South“