Lyrics: Philip Lupton
Music: Philip Lupton
Escudilla looms large on the horizon
With a story left to tell
Of the days before the world arrived
And half the angels fell
Sweet love and sweet time is all the earth should give
But a man could take much more
Than he ever was supposed to
So much more than he deserves
Escudilla was a tall, strong, blue mountain
With the sunshine and the cold
Within its rocky ridges
Lived a hundred little worlds
Held together by the one, lonesome grizzly bear
The last one of his kind
The rest were all tracked down
And left for dead beneath the pines
Well, big bear made his way across sweet escudilla's side
A testament to everything that's good and whole and right
The last of all the grizzlies gone, big bear still survived
Big bear, won't you fight like hell to keep yourself alive?
Well, the government came with all their providence
Their purpose and their plight
To take a green eyed day and turn it right into the night
A bright young man from a thousand miles away
With something out to prove
Hiked escudilla's sacred sides with bullets in his shoes
Big bear made his way across sweet escudilla's side
A testament to everything that's good and whole and right
The last of all the grizzlies gone, big bear still survived
Big bear, won't you fight like hell to keep yourself alive?
When the sun rose up on escudilla
There was a stillness in the air
A hole was torn so large, it never would be quite repaired
But they had a new dance to drink their spirits to
The day the big bear died
A tear was ran across the arizona countryside
Big bear laid his head down on sweet escudilla's side
A testament to everything that's good and whole and right
The last of all the grizzlies gone, big bear still survived
Big bear, won't you fight like hell to keep yourself alive?
Big bear, won't you fight like hell to keep yourself alive?