California Saga/The Beaks Of Eagles-The Beach Boys

[ti:California Saga/The Beaks Of Eagles] [ar:The Beach Boys] [al:Carl And The Passions - So Tough/Holland] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]California Saga/The Beaks Of Eagles - The Beach Boys [00:09.53]An eagle's nest on the head of an old redwood [00:12.23]On one of the precipice footed ridges [00:14.75]Above Ventana Creek [00:16.18] [00:16.83]That jagged country which nothing but a fallen [00:19.46]Meteor will ever plow [00:20.69] [00:22.04]No horseman will ever ride there [00:23.75] [00:24.99]No hunter cross this ridge but the winged ones [00:27.88] [00:28.55]No one will steal the eggs from this fortress [00:31.48] [00:33.50]She eagle is old [00:34.58] [00:36.35]Her mate was shot long ago [00:37.80] [00:38.41]She is now mated [00:39.17]With a son of hers [00:40.16] [00:41.76]When lightning blasted her nest she built it again on the same tree [00:45.79] [00:46.53]In the splinters of the thunder bolt [00:48.61]A broken shack an old man takes his time about dyin' [00:53.21] [00:57.51]Just at the back a wild flowerbed that he'll lie in [01:02.09] [01:06.08]In dawn's new light a man might venture [01:09.89] [01:10.46]A horse drawn stage from Monterey [01:13.72] [01:24.49]She eagle is older than I [01:25.99] [01:26.83]She was here when the fires of eighty five [01:28.96]Raged on these ridges [01:29.96] [01:31.39]She was lately fledged and dared not hunt ahead of them [01:34.25]But ate scorched meat [01:35.64] [01:36.79]The world has changed in her time [01:38.68] [01:39.71]Humanity has multiplied [01:40.85]But not here [01:41.41] [01:42.94]Men's hopes and thoughts and customs have changed [01:45.37] [01:46.47]Their powers are enlarged [01:47.80] [01:48.97]Their powers and their follies have become fantastic [01:51.60] [01:55.57]Spilled down the hill a wagon load of bodies lay scattered [02:00.11] [02:04.30]Shipwrecked at sea [02:05.23] [02:06.36]Limestone ore is all that mattered [02:08.90] [02:12.62]They took it from the hills right through the cargo doors [02:16.35] [02:16.97]How many ships have come and gone at Thurso's landing shore [02:20.66] [02:26.96]The unstable animal never has been changed so rapidly [02:30.02] [02:30.81]The motor and the plane and the great war have gone over him [02:34.22] [02:34.91]And Lenin has lived and Jehovah died while the mother eagle [02:38.36]Hunts her same hills [02:40.23]Crying the same beautiful and lonely cry [02:42.69] [02:43.88]And is never tired dreams the same dreams [02:47.25] [02:47.77]And hears at night the rock slides rattle and thunder in the [02:51.59]Throats of these living mountains [02:53.50] [02:54.45]It is good for man to try all changes [02:57.23]Progress and corruption powers [02:59.16]Peace and anguish [03:00.25] [03:01.01]Not to go down the dinosaur's way [03:03.12] [03:04.08]Until all his capacities have been explored [03:06.29] [03:07.33]And it is good for him [03:08.48]To know that his needs and nature are no more changed [03:11.29]In fact in ten thousand years than the beaks of eagles [03:15.45] [03:17.20]Eagle's plight [03:18.19] [03:18.79]We know that nature's balance is undone [03:21.35] [03:24.93]And it's the birthright of man to unify and live his life as one [03:30.45] [03:34.06]A whisper of the word will let you soar with your soul