[ti:Just As It Should Be]
[ar:Matthew Lien]
[al:Caribou Commons]

[00:00.00]Just As It Should Be
[00:01.00]From the "Caribou Commons" CD
[00:02.00](c)(p) Matthew Lien / Whispering Willows Music 1999
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[00:06.52]
[00:14.23]Relentlessly, the Arctic Sea resounds upon the shore
[00:25.57]Mew gulls court the waves report,
[00:31.74]just as ten-thousand years before
[00:39.89]And coming through, the caribou renew the ancient round
[00:50.66]And as they do, a chosen few return their bodies to the ground
[01:02.82]
[01:04.74]And It is tragic, it is pure
[01:09.04]To survive is to endure
[01:15.28]And all is just as it should be
[01:20.88]The coastal plain, the Arctic Sea
[01:27.06]
[01:29.54]And Summer herds move on towards the call of distant lands
[01:40.68]Leaving only memories, and cloven hoof-prints in the sand
[01:53.47]And the ocean glimmers gold tonight, bathed in Arctic light
[02:06.11]Somewhere a tern takes rest from flight
[02:12.87]Somewhere a calf will die tonight
[02:20.09]
[02:21.69]And It is tragic, it is pure
[02:26.49]To survive is to endure
[02:33.29]And all is just as it should be
[02:39.14]The coastal plain, the Arctic Sea
[02:45.76]And all is just as it should be
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