Humanity's Crawl - lyrics and meaning

A quick intro to the purpose of this text Humanity's Crawl is a musical concept piece written and performed by myself, Mitch Marinello. Though the audience may be able to glean aspects of the story through the lyrics, it is essentially impossible to tell this story through lyrics alone, as it is quite grand, playing with larger themes and citing historical developments. This text therefore serves as a supplementary explanation to provide further context for the audience that wishes to understand the piece better. This story is a mythologization of the human settlement of Australia some 50,000 years ago and the subsequent devastation of the megafauna that inhabited the land at the time. My principle source for the historical elements with which I have taken artistic license is the book "Sapiens" by Yuval Noah Harari. As my attempt was to take as many true historical elements as possible and weave them into a coherent story, I will attempt to cite sources as we...

Humanity ’ s Crawl  Lyrics by Mitch Marinello 1 . Hunger in the Moonlight (A baby crying in the sea) Hunger in the moonlight . I track it , it puts up a fight . I kill it and drag it back to the others . The fire , the bellied beast . The spirits in everything - I hear them , I fear them , I feel them In every stone ,  in every pool, in every song  Every time when things wrong, it ’ s they who follow and swallow from the sea ... If spirits try to kill me I will fight em back with a mighty attack  If spirits try to take my son away I will do whatever that it takes I am known as Seaborn , worn out from the drudgery .  Frightened of the dark - for him , my little boy , for the women His mother had passed away , I found him in the bush as the others had found on me the shore .  I took him and gave him warmth ; a name too : Settler By starlight , we navigate and subjugate the beasts we hunt . If spirits try to k...