The Agonist - Globus Hystericus текст песни

What says the Tree to his friends the Rocks?
When he lives and breathes they sit and mock?
And he grows strong, for centuries long, but one he dies and begins to rot
"We will last intact this way! And you my friend, will soon decay!"
"But I can breathe -- am commensal; the shade, the fruits, the nests on bough
And if with this, my time finite, I'm glad to have spent it doing right"
But Rocks prefer to simply sit
To gain none, lost none, just exist
But nary should an ocean rise, they'd become sand and disappear with the tides
When trees ignite a cyclical life, from plant to animal to Earth and back; whom, even when their roots are ploughed, have left exponential impact
And so, the greedy human kind, to conquer trees tall, mountains high, erects gigantic splinters of steel that shame forests, make mountains to kneel
And progress spreads like moss on a stone
Evolution dictates that men are prone to outdo those that came before
"You see? We'll last forever more!"
We improve what nature made
We'll challenge mountains, transplant lakes
There is no confirmed master plan
We do it just because we can
But foolish is the one who complacently thinks himself King because when Time erodes the past what remains are Nature's things
Quite Shakespearean duals, those between parent and offspring are!
As Chronos devours his Son, Gaia to mankind so starts
Metal rusts, cement crumbles
To err is human, not divine
Prayers are so intently mumbled when proud man is forces to decline
Steel, concrete, technology may stand intact for centuries, but faces with wind or flood or quake, like toys will crumble, bend and break
I say with actions what you do with words
For we're the moss; the Earth -- the stone, so let us do as did the Tree
For silence will long be ignored, and action recognized quickly
We won't outlive our generation but our impact surely will
This -- the Rocks' humiliation -- when they witness we are still alive in what we've left for others, like Nature gives, so selflessly
So pay respect to out true Mother and take your rank amongst the Trees