Black Bear, Pt. II ft. Night Falls Lyrics

In the woods, in the mountains

We begin another chapter

Still more to be gleaned

From the essence of the black Bear

Because the black bear has a presence

Which to witness is a gift

To receive it we must open

Like a clearing in the mist

And here comes black bear now

Emerging from hibernation

She's not alone, she brings the future

The next bear generation

Two cubs timid, amid the brambles

Stumbling into being

Blind when born, but now behold

The majesty of seeing

A purity of openness

With everything to learn

Let the bears remind us of a grace

To which we may return

And the black bear lives for living

And to keep her cubs alive

She doesn't take or hurt more than she needs

In order to survive

And why is it so hard to change?

What insistence does it take?

I trailed the wisdom of the bears

The distance to the lake

And when she gazed

Across the water

I saw her as

Mother Nature's daughter

And from that same mother

I am her brother

For at least that moment

We saw each other

The kinship cut me to the core

And turned me inside out

All the ways we've failed her

Are too many to count

But the black bear doesn't fault us

She has no concept of blame

Nor can she forgive us

Our trespass and our shame

The fact is we have taken

Much more than is our share

In so doing we have broken

More than we can repair

I'm older now and wiser,

With a lot less time to wallow

No more seeking out self-pity

Instead examples that I can follow

The qualities that cast the spell

Will be the same to lift the curse

Resourcefulness and imagination

But this time in reverse

And the black bear lives for living

And to keep her cubs alive

She doesn't take or hurt more than she needs

In order to survive

And why is it so hard to change?

What insistence does it take?

I trailed the wisdom of the bears

The distance to the lake

And the black bear lives for living

And to keep her cubs alive

She doesn't take or hurt more than she needs

In order to survive

And why is it so hard to change?

What insistence does it take?

I trailed the wisdom of the bears

The distance to the lake