Darkness and Trees Lyrics by Come From Away Cast
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Come From Away Cast - Darkness and Trees Lyrics
We can see them from the plane - this long line of headlights coming through the darkness.
Off of the airplane
Ladies and gentlemen, you can take only your carry-on items. Any checked luggage will remain in the hold.
Into the airport
The captain and flight attendants tell everyone to take the blankets and pillows off the plane.
Out of the windows
We grab 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 left over from the Cold War. Kevin is 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 payphones are out of order.
They're all lined up at the airport payphones - so eventually we put an "Out of Order" sign on them just so we can get people on the busses.
11:48pm. Busses and driver are not taking passengers to shelters, not just in Gander, but also to Gambo, Appleton, and farther communities of Lewisporte, Norris Arm, and Glenwood.
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.
Some says he got searched.
And now... he's on our bus.
I try to interview the Red Cross, the Salvation Army - but they've got more important things to do than 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 going.
They take me and my crew in a separate van and I'm looking out the window, trying to see where we are, but it's pitch dark. I've flown over this area hundreds and hundreds of times. And it's just darkness - hardly and lights anywhere. And now here I am. Oh my god, this is just so remote.
Into the darkness
Stars and the moonlight
But all around us
Nothing but darkness
Out of the windows
Into the darkness
Darkness and trees
Every school bus we got is goin' back and forth all night. Out to the Salvation Army Camp, we've delivered passengers from Germany, England, and France. And around 3 in the morning, my bus is designed to take all these African people out there. So we starts driving into the darkness.
Into the darkness
My family and I try to see out the bus windows. No one tells us where we are going.
Onto a gravel road
Silence comes on the bus. We get outside of Gander and you could hear a pin drop.
And all around us
My wife and daughter are scared. They ask me what is happening and I do not know.
Darkness and trees
Behind me, this big man comes up to me and he says in this low voice,
Wewe watuchukuwa wapi?
...what's that, now?
[Thanks to lillypggoldburg for adding these lyrics]
Off of the airplane
Ladies and gentlemen, you can take only your carry-on items. Any checked luggage will remain in the hold.
Into the airport
The captain and flight attendants tell everyone to take the blankets and pillows off the plane.
Out of the windows
We grab 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 left over from the Cold War. Kevin is 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 payphones are out of order.
They're all lined up at the airport payphones - so eventually we put an "Out of Order" sign on them just so we can get people on the busses.
11:48pm. Busses and driver are not taking passengers to shelters, not just in Gander, but also to Gambo, Appleton, and farther communities of Lewisporte, Norris Arm, and Glenwood.
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.
Some says he got searched.
And now... he's on our bus.
I try to interview the Red Cross, the Salvation Army - but they've got more important things to do than 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 going.
They take me and my crew in a separate van and I'm looking out the window, trying to see where we are, but it's pitch dark. I've flown over this area hundreds and hundreds of times. And it's just darkness - hardly and lights anywhere. And now here I am. Oh my god, this is just so remote.
Into the darkness
Stars and the moonlight
But all around us
Nothing but darkness
Out of the windows
Into the darkness
Darkness and trees
Every school bus we got is goin' back and forth all night. Out to the Salvation Army Camp, we've delivered passengers from Germany, England, and France. And around 3 in the morning, my bus is designed to take all these African people out there. So we starts driving into the darkness.
Into the darkness
My family and I try to see out the bus windows. No one tells us where we are going.
Onto a gravel road
Silence comes on the bus. We get outside of Gander and you could hear a pin drop.
And all around us
My wife and daughter are scared. They ask me what is happening and I do not know.
Darkness and trees
Behind me, this big man comes up to me and he says in this low voice,
Wewe watuchukuwa wapi?
...what's that, now?
[Thanks to lillypggoldburg for adding these lyrics]
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