Creatures of the Night

from Camped Out in the Big Bang by Richard Haxton

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Creatures of the Night

Night fall, we heed the call
With the beat of a thousand wings
We make our sounds. We make our rounds
Before the fright the morning brings

We just wanna feed, just wanna breed
The way we were designed
But ghostly shapes, fangs and capes
Keep closing human minds

We live to be in flight
But we cannot stand the light
It isn't wrong or right
We're creatures of the night

The family of man is a simple clan
They say different makes you wrong
They call us evil ones. They train their guns
If only they could hear our song

But we sing so high, we have to die
Just let me make my case
The human ear fills up with fear
When it only hears the base
Chorus
It's gotta be hard to keep the ear holes clean
When the head is buried in the sand
Gotta be hard to keep the knuckles clean
When they're getting dragged all across the land
Gotta be hard to keep the conscience clean
Gotta go so low to keep the upper hand
The dark must be hard to understand
With no echolocation in your scan

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from Camped Out in the Big Bang, released June 1, 2014

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Richard Haxton Los Angeles, California

From the middle of Mississippi, served in Viet Nam in Thailand, lives 5,000 feet from the world's oldest freeway. Searches for transcendence - or something - where science meets the spirit. Never quit fighting the war for the groove!

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