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Nova Loka
Atta Cephalotes
Dance
Atta Cephalotes was released on July 17, 2026 by Nova Loka Magic as a part of the album Science
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AlbumScience
Release DateJuly 17, 2026
LabelNova Loka Magic
LanguageEnglish
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy
BPM103

OVERVIEW

LYRICS

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Paul Deon Widdicombe
Paul Deon Widdicombe
Keyboards
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Paul Deon Widdicombe
Paul Deon Widdicombe
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Paul Deon Widdicombe
Paul Deon Widdicombe
Engineer

Lyrics

Atta Cephalotes is the leaf cutter ant
Red brick in colour
Workers are a centimetre long
Atta Cephalotes is the leaf cutter ant
Red brick in colour
Workers are a centimetre long
They're bristling with sharp spines and fierce jaws
And in the thousands they all march along
Antennae guided by odour trails
They all ascend a tree
When they climb
And reach the canopy
They begin to
Cut cut cut all the leaves
They carry the leaf pieces
Far above their weight
Back to their nest
Where smaller ants
Carve up the leaves
And even smaller ants will grind them
To pellets
And assemble them
Into spongelike balls
Full of intricate channels
Where a fungus feeds
On the leaves like a white frost
Digesting cellulose and protein
And even smaller ants pluck loose strands of fungus
And plant them in the garden
They even weed out alien species
To keep the garden
Clean and pure
Clean and pure
Because from time to time
They'll pluck out larger tufts of fungus
And feed them to the entire colony
For this is their sole source of food
Because from time to time
They'll pluck out larger tufts of fungus
And feed them to the entire colony
For this is their sole source of food
Sole source of food
Time to time
They'll pluck out larger tufts of fungus
And feed them to the entire colony
For this is their sole source of food
Time to time
They'll pluck out larger tufts of fungus
And feed them to the entire colony
For this is their sole source of food
And has been this way for millennia
A super colony of symbiosis
Two organisms perfectly attuned
A super colony of symbiosis
Two organisms perfectly attuned
A colony of symbiosis
Two organisms perfectly attuned
Perfectly attuned
And when a new queen
Leaves her birthplace
She carries in her mouth
That precious fungus
So she can make her own nest
She lays her first eggs alone
Feeding her first soldiers
Her eggs
Before they can cut leaves
And in this way
Procures her tribe
And procures the species
Written by: Paul Deon Widdicombe

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