A Ring Around the Moon

[PERCY]
Outside in the night
There's a ring around the moon
The wind sings in barbed wire
I've listened to the tune
What seems like fifty years
Or maybe it was five
It's hard to count the days
When you're buried alive

Outside of these walls
Is a bigger world than me
I had nowhere to hide
The last time I was free
I've circled on the map
A place to start again
A town called Gilead
Close my eyes and count to ten

And it's one-one thousand two
Three-one thousand four
Five-one thousand
Six-one thousand
Seven-one thousand more
Eight-one thousand nine
Nine-one thousand ten
Five years seemed like fifty
Now it's time to start again

Ring around the moon
Bigger world than me
Ready or not, here I go
Olly olly oxen free
Olly olly oxen free

Two steps follow one
One step follows two
A ticket in my hand
A bus to somewhere new
A circle on the map
Count the miles to go
On the road to Gilead
Down a highway I don't know

It's one mile turning two
Three miles turns to four
Five miles turns to fifty
Then a hundred miles more
Bus rolls to a stop
Driver turns to me
"This is Gilead
What there is is what you see"

A ring around the moon
Bigger world than me
Ready or not, here I come
Olly olly oxen free

[SHERIFF JOE SUTTER, spoken]
So—Perchance Talbott.

[PERCY, spoken]
Percy'll do. Warden Halverson said he was gonna call.

[JOE, spoken]
Yeah, sure, I got a call from the prison. But to be honest, I don't know what the hell I'm gonna do with you. Grab your suitcase.

[PERCY]
Behind the window glass
There are faces I can't see
I feel them as we pass
Peekin' out to stare at me
Along the silent streets
Through a curtain of new snow
In the town of Gilead...

[JOE, spoken]
Good, there's a light on over at the Spitfire.

[Music swells as the Spitfire is revealed.]

Hannah? I saw the light. You still up?

[HANNAH, spoken]
No.

[JOE, spoken]
I didn't think so. Can I talk to you anyway?

[PERCY]
This is Gilead...
What there is is what you see
A ring around the moon
Bigger world than me—

[JOE, spoken]
You know, you could use a waitress this winter.

[HANNAH, spoken]
I took in a stray dog once and I had to replace all my carpets.

[JOE, spoken]
Hannah...

[HANNAH, spoken]
Well...

[JOE, spoken]
Miss Talbott, looks like you're all set.

[HANNAH, spoken]
Bathroom's at the end of the hall. I give you breakfast at six. Work starts at six-thirty sharp. Anything else you need to know will keep 'til then.

[PERCY]
A dark and narrow hall
And through the door I find
The same cold empty walls
I thought I left behind

A window without bars
Looking out on somethin' free
In the town of Gilead
Close my eyes and count to three

And there's a ring around the moon
Bigger world than me
Ready or not, here I am
Olly olly oxen free...