The Tell

“This you knows: the years travel fast and time after time I done the tell. But this ain’t one body’s tell; it’s the tell of us all, and you’ve got to listen it and [re]member, ’cause what you hears today you gotta tell the newborn tomorrow.

I’s lookin behind us now, into history back. I sees those of us that got the luck and started the haul for home and I ‘members how it led us here and how we was heartbroke cause we seen what they once was. One look and we knew’d we’d got it straight. Those what had gone before had the knowin’ and the doin’ of things beyond our reckonin’, even beyond our dreamin’.

Time counts and keeps countin’ and we knows now, findin’ the trick of what’s been and lost ain’t no easy ride. But that’s our track. We gotta travel it and there ain’t nobody knows where it’s gonna lead.
“Still, in all, every night we does the tell so that we member who we was and where we came from. But most of all we ‘members the man who finded us, him that came the salvage, and we lights the city not just for him but for all of ’em that are still out there, cause we knows there’ll come a night when they sees the distant light and they’ll be comin’ home.”

Savannah from “Beyond Thunderdome”