I Came From The Swamps...

The shambling mound, a mortal form assumed Emerges form the mire in which was consumed A man, a mind, the moss and loam it taught Inspiring vegetal consciousness and thought [CHORUS] Alone, he's yearning for love And self-discovery He's teaching humanity Of Earth, and the web of life He's natures duality Elementally [CHORUS] The force of nature bound in an Earth Elemental A man no longer, with power exponential A curse upon the virus of this planet Dying to show man the value of the plant And when they refuse to see He levels all their cities Darkly, his green mind considers Extinction However, he knows when to stop How unlike a man His voyages take him far Out into the aether He learns secrets cabalistic in content But longs to return to the green Struggling to solve dichotomy within Flesh tries to speak, wood simply listens The sound of the end looming on the horizon An event of which he tries to make us wiser