Beams White Belly lyrics

Snake on the sand, underneath the sky,
red back down and white belly high,
waiting for the eagle to take him to paradise.

Snake on the sand, underneath the sky,
red back down and white belly high,
waiting for the eagle to take him to paradise.

Shadow flickered over the sand,
eagle called down, circling in:
“why don't you hide? Where is the chase?”
“I don't wanna get caught up in someone else's race.
I know my role, I know my place. I know what this is, why resist it?
I know how this ends, I'll just close my eyes.”


“Why don't you wait another day? No white belly up to the sky.
I'll let you lie.
“Why don't you wait another day? No white belly up to the sky.
I'll let you lie,”
and down by the river, a snake swam sneakily by the eagle's eye,
and up by the tree, I think about the course
and I am willing to try.

Then the eagle, passing, called out to his brother:
“It was a hot and wretched day, yeah,
and I didn't see nothin'.
No, I didn't see nothin'.”