Darkness And Trees

We can see them from the plane
 This long line of headlights coming through the darkness
 Off of the airplane
 Ladies and gentlemen, you can take only your carry-on items
 Any checked luggage will remain in the hold
 Into the airport
 The captain and flight attendants tell everyone
 To take the blankets and pillows off the plane
 Out of the windows
 We grab 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 left over from the Cold War
 Kevin is 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 payphones are out of order
 They're all lined up at the airport payphones
 So eventually we put an "Out of Order" sign on them
 Just so we can get people on the buses
 11: 48 pm. Buses and driver are not taking passengers to shelters, not just in Gander
 But also to Gambo, Appleton, and farther communities of Lewisporte
 Norris Arm, and Glenwood
 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
 Some says he got searched
 And now, he's on our bus
 I try to interview the Red Cross, the Salvation Army
 But they've got more important things to do than 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 going
 They take me and my crew in a separate van and I'm looking out the window
 Trying to see where we are, but it's pitch dark
 I've flown over this area hundreds and hundreds of times
 And it's just darkness, hardly and lights anywhere
 And now here I am, oh my god, this is just so remote
 Into the darkness
 Stars and the moonlight
 But all around us
 Nothing but darkness
 Out of the windows
 Into the darkness
 Darkness and trees
 Every school bus we got is goin' 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 designed to take all these African people out there
 Into the darkness
 My family and I try to see out the bus windows
 No one tells us where we are going
 Onto a gravel road
 Silence comes on the bus
 We get outside of Gander and you could hear a pin drop
 My wife and daughter are scared
 They ask me what is happening and I do not know
 Behind me, this big man comes up to me and he says in this low voice
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 What's that, now?