Verse 1 (Nomis): Man lives, man dies, man has objectives, and man proved effective Man lives, man dies, man has perfected, but man lacks perspective Chorus: 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 Verse 2 (Nomis): 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 Chorus: 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 Verse 3 (Propaganda): 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 raindanced 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 Chorus: 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