Tundra Lyrics - Under Wraps - Jethro Tull

Short Arctic desert day --- 

and someone left their snow-shoes in the tundra. 

Look around every which way 

but I can't see just where the footprints go. 

Is it a casual disappearance? --- 

Plucked from the middle atmosphere 

like straw wind-blown. 

No speck on the horizon --- 

no simple message scrawled 

upon the snow. 

Unearthly visitation --- 

someone left their snow-shoes in the tundra. 

Hungry buzzard flier 

circling round and round 

rattling death's tambourine. 

Related 

27 Best Ever Songs From Movie Soundtracks 

From MetroLyrics to You: Our Classic Christmas Playlist 

5 Totally Underrated Christmas Songs 

Have to run it down the cold wire --- 

late insertion in tomorrow's lost and found. 

Should I spread out searching? 

But I'm a little thin upon the ground. 

So I raise my lips to coax 

the last drop of brandy from the bottle. 

Rest my feet and contemplate 

the mystery that's haunting 

this Siberian space. 

Show-shoes they bind me down --- 

I'm just one more parasite of the surface layer. 

I begin to get the feeling 

I've been on this stage before 

and I'm the only player. 

Photos 

One more Arctic desert day --- 

another set of shoes out in the tundra snow. 

I make my fade to white-out 

and you can't see me where my footprints go.