i may be a bird in a cage but at least it's your cage

Hm, this is harder at first glance than I thought! But:

1. Hello Birmingham ani di franco. What is it about Birmingham, what is it about Buffalo, that the hate-filled want to build bunkers in your beautiful red earth, they want to build them in our shiny white snow? Only marginally about place, but god, I love that line.

2. When I Go to West Virginia Atwater-Donnelly. Oh the hills of West Virginia are green and lush / and I go to hear the music / one small mountain after another / pushes out of the earth / they're falling over each other like children...

3. Dean Caladan Samhach Capercaillie. Leaving for an unknown shore / with every breeze just like a sigh / the sea is deep with tears of those before / with feelings like a seabird's cry.

4. White City Erin McKeown. I associate this one with SGA, which is maybe why I like it so much: Our white city is wide with wonder and heights of greatness and nights asunder...

5. Searching for America Janis Ian. Searching for America in the rivets and the rust / searching for America, finding only dust.... we harvested until we bled, till every single root ran red / and when the work was finally done, they gave our names to Immigration..."

Also! YAY BE GOOD TANYAS. I adore them beyond the telling of it.