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Instrumental Intro

Verse

Pale light sifts through alder leaves

A scholar walks where no path goes

Mossy runes beneath my boots

The survey map is blank

Somebody carved these marks before the county named the woods

My compass needle spins

Pre-Chorus

Each ring is a sentence I cannot parse

Each root a footnote older than the parish

Chorus

Nobody planted this

Nobody wrote it down

The forest keeps its thesis to itself

Post-Chorus

Oh oh oh

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Oh oh oh

Verse

Fog collects in hollow ways

I bring my instruments and doubt

Thermometers and chalk

The canopy edits every reading that I take

A wren repeats one phrase

Pre-Chorus

I labeled every species that I know

The lichen spells a language I forgot

Chorus

Nobody planted this

Nobody wrote it down

The forest keeps its thesis to itself

Post-Chorus

Oh oh oh

Mm mm mm

Bridge

Feral alleys feral fern

Quiet archives quietly burn

I file the question I can't answer

Bind it in a ledger

Come back when the leaves return

Guitar Solo

Chorus

Nobody planted this

Nobody wrote it down

The forest keeps its thesis to itself

Keeps its thesis to itself

Keeps it to itself

Post-Chorus

La la la

Oh oh oh

Mm mm mm

Instrumental Outro