Todd Duncan — A Bird of Passage/Thousands of Miles Reprise

[ENSEMBLE] A bird of passage out of night Flies in at a lighted door Flies through and on in its darkened flight And then is seen no more This is the life of men on earth Out of darkness we come at birth Into a lamplit room and then Go forward into dark again Go forward into dark again Four o'clock It will soon be four o'clock [JAMES, spoken] Stay in Ndothshéni, Stephen.  [STEPHEN, spoken] If I stayed, do you know what I would preach here? That good can come from evil, and evil from good. That we are all lost here on this rock, that goes around the sun without meaning.  [JAMES, spoken] Not without meaning, Stephen. For even out of the horror of this crime, some things have come that are gain and not loss. I shall never forget your son's face in the courtroom when he said he would not lie again, or do any evil.  [STEPHEN, spoken] And my son is forgiven? And I am forgiven? [JAMES, spoken] Let us forgive each other. Let us be friends.&nsbp; [STEPHEN, spoken] Before the clock strikes, I shall stay in Ndotshéni. I have a friend.  [JAMES, spoken] I have a friend.  [ENSEMBLE] Each lives alone in a world of dark Crossing the skies in a lonely arc Save when love leaps out like a leaping spark Over thousands, thousands of miles