A Bird of Passage/Thousands of Miles Reprise by Todd Duncan Lyrics

[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