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