Darkness and trees lyrics

[Bob (spoken)]

We can see them from the plane--

this long line of headlights

coming through the darkness.

[Company]

Off of the airplane

[Flight attendant (spoken)]

Ladies and gentlemen,

you can take only your carry-on luggage.

Checked luggage will remain in the hold.

[Company]

Into the airport

[Diane (spoken)]

The captain and the flight attendant

tell everyone to take their blankets and pillows

off the plane.

[Company]

Out of the windows

[Kevin T (spoken)]

We grab bottles of water too--

no one has any idea where they're taking us.

[Company]

Darkness and trees

[Bob (spoken)]

As we enter the airport,

all those car lights are still aimed at us.

[Hannah (spoken)]

We're scared.

They're probably scared too.

[Flight attendant (spoken)]

The people here don't know

what to expect off of these planes.

[Kevin T (spoken)]

The airport looks like something left over

from the Cold War and Kevin's like:

[Kevin J (spoken)]

Oh my god.

We've gone back in time.

[Bob (spoken)]

The whole procedure

--the soldiers and all the formality--

it just makes me really nervous.

[Beverley (spoken)]

There's a giant map on the wall of the airport

and someone has written in red marker:

"You are here".

[Diane (spoken)]

Excuse me. I need to find a phone.

[Hannah (spoken)]

I need to call my son.

[Customs officer (spoken)]

I'm sorry.

The payphones are out of order.

[Oz (spoken)]

They're all lined up at the airport payphones–

so eventually we put an "Out of order" sign

on them just so we can get people on the busses.

[Claude (spoken)]

11:48 pm.

Busses and drivers are now taking

passengers to shelters, not just in Gander,

but also to Gambo, Appleton, and farther communities

in Lewisporte, Norris Arm and Glenwood.

[Passenger #12 (spoken)]

Our bus sits there forever.

[Passenger #5 (spoken)]

While all the others leave.

[Passenger #4 (spoken)]

Finally, this other passenger gets on.

[Passenger #11 (spoken)]

This guy from the Middle East.

[Passenger #2 (spoken)]

Someone says he got questioned.

[Passenger #7 (spoken)]

Someone says he got searched.

[Passenger #1 (spoken)]

And now... he's on our bus.

[Janice (spoken)]

I try to interview the Red Cross,

the Salvation Army – but they've got

more important things to do than to talk to me.

That's when I see them --the Plane People–

through the bus windows.

The terror on their faces.

They have no idea where they're going.

[Beverley (spoken)]

They take me and my crew in a separate van

and I'm looking out the window,

trying to see where we are, but it is pitch dark.

Now, I have flown over this area

hundreds and hundreds of times.

And it is just darkness–

hardly any lights anywhere.

And now here I am.

Oh my god, this is just so remote.

[Male company]

Into the darkness

[Female company]

Stars and the moonlight

[Male company]

But all around us

[Female company]

Nothing but darkness

[Male company]

Out of the windows

[Female company]

Into the darkness

[Company]

Darkness and trees

[Garth (spoken)]

Every school bus we got

is goin' back and forth all night.

Out to the Salvation Army Camp,

we've delivered passengers

from Germany, England and France.

And around three in the morning,

my bus is designated to take

all these African people out there.

[Company]

Into the darkness

[Muhumuza (spoken)]

My family and I try to see out the bus windows.

No one tells us where we are going.

[Company]

Onto a gravel road

[Garth (spoken)]

Silence comes on the bus.

We get outside of Gander

and you could hear a pin drop.

[Company]

And all around us

[Muhumuza (spoken)]

My wife and daughter are scared.

They ask me what is happening

and I do not know.

[Company]

Darkness and trees

[Garth (spoken)]

Behind me,

this big man comes up to me

and he says in this low voice...

[Muhumuza (spoken)]

Wewe watuchukuwa wapi?1

[Garth (spoken)]

What's that, now?

1. Where are you taking us?, in Swahili.

• Artist:Come From Away (Musical)
• Album:Come From Away (Original Broadway Cast Recording)