We can see them from the plane
This long line of headlights coming through the darkness
(Off, off the airplane)
Ladies and gentlemen, you can take only your carry-on items
Checked luggage will remain in the hold
(Into the airport)
The captain and flight attendants tell everyone
To take their blankets and pillows off the plane
(Out of the windows)
We grabbed bottles of water too
No one has any idea where they're taking us
(Darkness and trees)

As we enter the airport all those car lights are still aimed at us
We're scared, they're probably scared too
The people here don't know what to expect off of these planes
The airport looks like something leftover from the cold war and Kevin's like
Oh my God, we've gone back in time
The whole procedure, the soldiers and all the formality
It just makes me really nervous
There's a giant map on the wall of the airport
And someone has written in red marker
You are here

Excuse me, I need to find a phone
I need to call my son
I'm sorry, the pay phones are out of order
They're all lined up at the airport pay phones
So eventually, we put an out of order sign on 'em
Just so we can get people on the busses

11:48PM, busses and drivers are now taking passengers to shelters
Not just in Cannon, but also to Gamble, Appleton, and farther communities
Of Lewisboard and Norris Arm and Glen
Our bus sits there forever
While all the others leave
Finally this other passenger gets on
This guy from the Middle East
Someone says he got questioned
Someone says he got searched
And now, he's on our bus

I tried to interview the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, but
They 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 goin'

They take me and my crew in a separate van and I'm lookin' out the window
Tryna 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

Into the darkness (Stars and the moonlight)
Dark all around us (Nothing but darkness)
Out of the window (Into the darkness)
Darkness and trees

Every school bus we got is going 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
(Into the darkness)

My family and I tried to see out the bus windows
No one tells us where we are going
Silence comes on the bus
We get outside and gander and you could hear a pin drop
My wife and daughter are scared
They ask me what is happening, but I do not know
Behind me, this big man comes up to me and he says in this low voice
What's that now?