Man lives, man dies, man has objectives, and man proved effective
Man lives, man dies, man has perfected, but man lacks perspective
Before you found your voice there was a chorus
Before you take your throne, you must restore it
Before your flesh & bone
Before you built a home
Before they chopped them down, there was a forest
Before you found your voice there was a chorus
Before you take your throne, you must restore it
Before your flesh & bone
Before you built a home
Before they chopped them down, there was a forest
We want to be remembered in the annals of earth
And not just another mammal, you remember me first
And reach the pinnacle, remember you were granite and dirt
Man is everything and nothing at the same time
We want to be remembered in the annals of earth
And not just another mammal, you remember me first
And reach the pinnacle, remember you were granite and dirt
Man is everything and nothing at the same time
Before you found your voice there was a chorus
Before you take your throne, you must restore it
Before your flesh & bone
Before you built a home
Before they chopped them down, there was a forest
Before y'all could cut it all down, y'all ain't even explore it
Before you understood what it could do, y'all just destroyed it
Before y'all could fall in love, before you even knew what it was
All of humanities first house and home was the forest
The rain on leaves tickling, the earliest of instruments
The melody we're mimicking is the sound of wind whistling
Long before the sapients chanted under the stars
Or camped under a canopy, she sang her own song
And she was far from silent, no virus or violence
But the fragrance of her flowers it continues to invite us
Our medicine, materials, our vitamins, our minerals
And all that is essential it just grew right beside us
Entice us, started fighting over the gifts that she provide us
Scorching the very soil that all of us derive from
And when empires learn they can't withstand fire
We return to the land where our ancestors rain danced
We are all her creatures, we still bear her features
The one and only reason all living things is breathing
The city's deceiving, leave go see the dirt
Young go be among the lungs of mother earth
Before you found your voice there was a chorus
Before you take your throne, you must restore it
Before your flesh & bone
Before you built a home
Before they chopped them down, there was a forest
Before they chopped them down, there was a forest