Passing A Message - Villagers

I was carving my name out

Of a giant sequoia tree

I was blind to its beauty

Now it’s all I can see

See I’ve learned how to listen

To the folks on TV

They are passing a message

That means nothing to me

My vertebrate evolution

Easy as ABC

Baby steps from the ocean

Feather trails to the sea

Paddlefish to salamander

Honeybee to atrophy

I guess I’m losing my trail here

But it takes loss to be free

Now I work in a nightclub

At the Burj Khalifa

And I’m blind to its beauty

But it ain’t all that I have

So I’m passing a message

Like the folks on TV

Guess I’m getting the words out

But they don’t come from me

Paddlefish to salamander

Little girl to atrophy

I guess we’re losing our trail here

But it takes loss to be free