Track Insight / Lyrics
I count the rings on island pine
Quercus alba drinks gasoline
Brass key turns in locks unseen
Patient metal waits, serene
Roots remember what locks have been
Neon hums on Taxus crown
Key keeps watch on sacred ground
No door to open, no latch to lift
Just roots that drink the nitro gift
Ficus benjamina shades the pump
Roots embrace the oil-slick lump
Brass key gleams in sodium light
Guarding crops through dead of night
Photosynthesis burns so bright
Neon hums on Taxus crown
Key keeps watch on sacred ground
No door to open, no latch to lift
Just roots that drink the nitro gift
Acer rubrum maps the crossroads here
Xylem pulls the atmosphere
Brass key tastes the rain and rust
In soil deep it puts its trust
Cambium records what metals must
Petioles lift in diesel breeze
Stomata drink what engines squeeze
No lock exists for this key's turn
Just lessons buried roots discern
Pinus strobus counts the passing cars Photosynthesizes metal stars
Brass key warms in palm of dirt
Where root and rust and rain converge
Mycorrhizal networks surge
Neon hums on Taxus crown
Key keeps watch on sacred ground
No door to open, no latch to lift
Just roots that drink the nitro gift
Betula papyrifera peels
Revealing what the key conceals
No door required, no frame, no wall
Just growth that answers nature's call
