Fred Small - JaguarLyrics

In the emerald cathedral In the valley of clouds In the span of the branches Two eyes keep the watch Where the hummingbird dances And the snake hesitates With the calm of command The jaguar waits The chain saw is whining the bulldozer roars Monkeys are screeching in flight The spires of the Arawak cut down at one blow Where will the jaguar go Where will the jaguar go Under the hammer of hunger On the anvil of fear The poor of Sao Paolo Stream to the frontier With the promise of farmland Honest work honest pay Till the rains unrelenting Sweep the topsoil away The captains of cattle take the land cheap New York and Osaka crave beef Hooves crush the dirt into dust below Where will the jaguar go Where will the jaguar go When the circle is broken When the crystal is cracked When the thread of creation is torn We slip through the veil into terrors unknown Where will the jaguar go In the canyons of commerce In convoys of light The armies of loneliness Drive into the night Trading plastic for plastic Making fashion of trash We are dreaming of love As love turns to ash The fires of Prometheus flare to the sky The seas of the prophets boil dry This gutted globe was a garden I'm told Where will the jaguar go Where will the jaguar go Where will the jaguar go