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The Trees Are A Nervous System

from Letters on Extinction's Piece by Speech Act

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Twisting and reaching up
Felt through the cambium
Wonder if we will join it
When our time is up here and now

Do you feel the life: the pulse traveling in roots?
My hand is on its grooves
I sense it. I espy it.

Gazing for connections to the past;
That’s all the phloem knows
Witnesses to sublime and hell

I sense it.
Somewhere alive beneath us
Somewhere breathing beneath us.

You cut, it dies. You cut and it dies.
You cut, it dies. You cut and it dies.
You cut, it dies. You cut and it dies.
You cut, it dies. You cut and it dies.

Twisting and reaching up
Felt through the cambium
Wonder if we will join it
When our time is up here and now

The thing is alive, so you
Cut and we die—committed genocide!

I sense it. A collective. Protect it. Alive.
It’s all of us, now we will never know.
It’s all of us. Where would I stay if I heard you?

Do you feel the life: the pulse traveling in roots?
My hand is on its grooves
I sense it. I espy it.

Gazing for connections to the past;
That’s all the phloem knows
Witnesses to sublime and hell

Do we join it? The cambium where we finally rest.

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from Letters on Extinction's Piece, released August 13, 2021

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Speech Act Raleigh, North Carolina

Mad tunes from sad goons. Post-Metal.

travis//bass + vocals
evan//drums
colten//guitar

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