The song is based on Mario Cordina's own as yet unpublished book 'Children of The Pod,' where trees take over a human form and try to mingle and live within human society. Eventually these creatures will turn their backs on a society bent on war, crime, violence and cruelty. There is much that one can learn from observing the approach that other creatures sharing this planet have to life.
Lyrics
Our Roots Make us Human.
(Mario Cordina)
If a human could dig his roots in like a tree,Spread his branches and reach out and see.
There’d be no moving and no roaming around,
Maybe he’d learn to listen and make no sound.
And he’d be able to live for four hundred score,
And maybe learn a wee, wee little more,
About the space that we are rooted in.
About the space that we are rooted in.
Our roots make us human,
Our roots make us one,
Make us one with the space that we are rooted in.
And a logger might come to fell his head,
And the weather may blow - blow him dead.
But the birds feel blessed when they come to nest.
And choose his boughs to build, build their nest.
And if a human could dig his roots in like a tree,
See the future through the eyes of history,
Find a place in the space that we are rooted in,
Find a place in the space that we are rooted in.
Our roots make us human,
Our roots make us one,
Make us one with the space that we are rooted in.
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