I wrote the song a few years back, while up visiting my friend at her old General Store in Mississippi Station, Ontario. The muse... or muses... were the locals wolves that surrounded the house one night, instilling great fear in us humans and then great determination to overcome that fear.
Our song, Waltz of the Oblivious Wolves, is a wolf in sheep’s clothing… that is, a biting protest song delivered with the merino softness of a sweet country waltz. We Shiners began to finally record our covid-version of this tune with a plan to release it in time to support and see the turning of the tables down south… that is, the oblivious arrogant predators fall to a determined and conscious prey.
Lyrics
Wolves, they waltz
Outside our door
Glide and stride
And howl for more
Think they're safe
From what's in store
Swirl and twirl
And so ignore...
Our fear.
Chorus:
See how predators prance
When the prey is primed to pounce
Tables have been turned
Reversal of fortune
By a terror once spurned
But now embraced
And chastened
And laced
With a drive and force
It's the final course
For the wolves and their oblivious waltz
V2:
Once they ruled
So true and pure
Once they're weight
Would fell the sure
Now they dance
Immune from cure
doomed by threat
They can't endure...
Our fear.
Chorus:
See how predators prance
When prey is primed to pounce
Tables have been turned
Reversal of fortune
By a terror once spurned
But now embraced
And chastened
And laced
With a drive and force
It's the final course
For the wolves and their oblivious waltz
V3:
Vision and courage
Awakened
By fear
Survive the entry
Then all will be clear
Soon to return
To the life once lost
Life sacrificed
To that Insidious cause...
Of the wolves and their oblivious waltz
To the wolves and their oblivious waltz
God help the wolves and their oblivious waltz.