| A spark emerges, kindling flame
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| Set by components, heat, fuel, and oxygen
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| Tearing through forests, infernal blaze
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| Scorching the soil, making room for life to start again
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| Nitrogen, phosphorus, magnesium
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| Calcium, potassium, sulfuric amino acids
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| Through this disaster
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| Enrich the world
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| Shedding the skin of the canopy, return to Earth
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| The ashen rain
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| Falls to the world
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| Exothermic chemical combustion, let it burn
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| Natural pyre, arboreal funeral
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| And in the wake, lay massive graves
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| Supersurface catacombs of charcoal bones
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| An empty slate to set the stage for what’s to come
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| Nitrogen, phosphorus, magnesium
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| Calcium, potassium, sulfuric amino acids
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| Through this disaster
|
| Enrich the world
|
| Shedding the skin of the canopy, return to Earth
|
| The ashen rain
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| Falls to the world
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| Exothermic chemical combustion, let it burn
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| Let it burn
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| Plant perception, fire-mediated serotinous seed dispersion
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| Alkalinity and acidity create eutrophic soil
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| Germination and flowering occur
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| Replacing with new life what was taken by disaster
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| Through this disaster
|
| Enrich the world
|
| Shedding the skin of the canopy, return to Earth
|
| The ashen rain
|
| Falls to the world
|
| Exothermic chemical combustion, let it burn
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| Let it burn |