Akira The Don, Richard Feynman - Trees Come Out Of The Air lyrics

The substance of the tree is carbon
Where did that come from?
It comes from the air
It's carbon dioxide from the air
People look at trees and they think
It comes out of the ground
That plants grow out of the ground
But if you ask
Where the substance comes from?
You find out, where did it come from?
Trees come out of the air?
They surely come out of the ground
No, they come out of the air
No, they come out of the air

The carbon dioxide in the air goes into
The tree and it changes it
Kicking out the oxygen
And then pushing the oxygen
Away from the carbon
And leaving the carbon substance with water
Water comes out of the ground
Only it came out of the air, didn't it?
Came down from the sky so most of it
Almost all of the tree is out of the ground
I'm sorry, it's out of the air!
Now, of course I told you the oxygen
And carbon stick together very tight
How is it that the tree is so smart
To manage to take the carbon dioxide
Which is the carbon oxygen nicely combined
And undo that so easy?
Ah, life life has some mysterious quirks
No, the sun is shining
And it's the sunlight that comes down and
Locks this oxygen away from the carbon
So it takes sunlight to get the plant to work
And so the sun, all the time
Is doing the work of separating the
Oxygen away from the carbon, the oxygen
Is some kind of terrible byproduct
Which it spit's back into the air
And leaving the carbon and
Water and stuff to make the
Substance of the tree
And then when we take the
Substance in the tree
And stick it in the fireplace
It is the only oxygen made by these trees
And all the carbon would much prefer
To be close together again
And once you've let the heat
To get it started
It continues and makes an awful lot of
Activity while it's going back together again
And all this nice light and
Everything comes out and everything
Is being undone, you're going back
To carbon and oxygen, back to carbon dioxide
And the light and the heat
That's coming out that's the
Light and heat of the sun that went in
The sun that went in

So it's sort of stored sun that's coming
Out when you burn a log
So it's sort of stored sun that's coming
Out when you burn a log

So it's sort of stored sun that's coming out
When you burn a log
So it's sort of stored sun that's coming out
When you burn a log
So it's sort of stored sun that's coming out
When you burn a log
So it's sort of stored sun that's coming out
When you burn a log