This song is inspired by the study showing that Mount Rainier’s summit is shrinking as the great glacier atop it melts away. The lyrics imagine the mountain as a proud sentinel losing its icy crown, revealing hidden rock and the effects of warming decades.

It serves as a symbol of change and impermanence; how what we think is eternal may quietly vanish. It urges a listening to nature’s whispers and a reflection on our place in that story.

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