Redemption Songs: Science Fiction

Redemption songs, they sang, out on the range as they sat around the campfire. Not songs of love lost--usually--or money to be won. Songs of how to get their soul back. It was, at first, an interesting cultural detail, but it too quickly became heartbreaking as he worked among them and came to know them as they knew themselves. *They* had not even one anything wrong, except insofar as they were born from ancestors who had signed the treaties and agreed to travel away to the stars. But once there, they'd found the land had no soul--or, maybe, had a soul that belonged to ones there before them, or ones who were to come if they could grow from the terraformed soil that had wiped out some minor species, or at least rendered them--


Inspiration: "Redemption Song" - Bob Marley
Story Potential: Medium
Notes: This has a lot of potential, but I'm not sure how the various bits and pieces would come together.