Old Growth
from Scrapyard Vistas by TrashAxis
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lyrics
Wild lightning struck the fire that swept me from
my siblings. I flew and fell and when I landed
bankets of ash and snow covered me.
I gave into sleep, cradled by corpses of my family.
Awaiting rebirth in the cold dark earth
As one so small and frail,
I had to hide under shadows of fog
for fear that the sunlight would kill me.
Biding time, I regained my strength,
drank up the rain.
Exhumed from my tomb, I broke through the earth’s crust
And sprang forth to the sun!
I could live to be three thousand years old.
I have seen my childrens’ children full grown.
Most of your children will be wiped out.
You willl lose them in the drought.
I could live to be three hundred feet high,
higher than an eagle in the sky!
You will be scorched. You will survive,
but you will bare scars the rest of your life.
I lied in the ruins, buried and rotten.
Still I lived on, when most would have died.
I was born to persevere.
This giant cannot be felled.
At last, after centuries of safe seclusion,
descried by a man from the west.
He and his cronies severed me from my body,
and for a funeral they danced upon my remains.
Spread my limbs all over the world.
A skeleton to marvel.
Not one man shed a tear
for the potion to cut us all clear.
my siblings. I flew and fell and when I landed
bankets of ash and snow covered me.
I gave into sleep, cradled by corpses of my family.
Awaiting rebirth in the cold dark earth
As one so small and frail,
I had to hide under shadows of fog
for fear that the sunlight would kill me.
Biding time, I regained my strength,
drank up the rain.
Exhumed from my tomb, I broke through the earth’s crust
And sprang forth to the sun!
I could live to be three thousand years old.
I have seen my childrens’ children full grown.
Most of your children will be wiped out.
You willl lose them in the drought.
I could live to be three hundred feet high,
higher than an eagle in the sky!
You will be scorched. You will survive,
but you will bare scars the rest of your life.
I lied in the ruins, buried and rotten.
Still I lived on, when most would have died.
I was born to persevere.
This giant cannot be felled.
At last, after centuries of safe seclusion,
descried by a man from the west.
He and his cronies severed me from my body,
and for a funeral they danced upon my remains.
Spread my limbs all over the world.
A skeleton to marvel.
Not one man shed a tear
for the potion to cut us all clear.
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from Scrapyard Vistas,
released October 31, 2023
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Oct 2023 -
Oct 2013 -
Oct 2013 -
Jan 2010
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