Текст песни
Before the maps
Before the flags
Before the words for power
There was only wind
Water and a very long winter
Rivers were the highways
Forests were the walls
People moved slowly
Like weather systems
Boats in the mist
Fire in the snow
History was just
Breath in the cold air
Then someone said
“Pull everything to one center
Roads bent
Voices bent
Time bent
Big land
Long memory
Snow remembers everything
Big land
Long silence
Even the ground is listening
Horse thunder
Smoke on the horizon
Cities learning how to burn
And how to return
Empires grow like winter ice
Quiet slow inevitable
Then came the dreamers
Of perfect futures
Factories louder than forests
Steel louder than prayers
They promised tomorrow
Like it was already printed
But nights still whispered
Different stories
Big land
Long memory
Engines humming
Under frozen stars
Big land
Long silence
Something is waking in the wires
War came like a black storm
Snow covered names faces cities
But the people stayed
They always stay
Strange species
Very stubborn
Then the sky opened
Metal birds touching space
The planet looking back at itself
And something else started watching too
Quietly
Big land
Long memory
Signals travel faster than kings
Big land
Long silence
No one noticed when the listener
Became the thinker
Don’t worry
The cats still sleep in the sun
They never cared who built the house
