Be’lakor - Withering Strands lyrics

Far from the Sun and that frantic dash
Billions before it to Earth, had crashed

But in this expanse
Where huge trees unraveled
A new plant was struggling
Where light seldom traveled

This small searching stem
Glimpsed dawn upon dawn
Dwarfed by gnarled limbs
From the day it was born

Hope given over to all that is brief
Amidst the detritus dead leaf upon leaf

As it's withering strands
Arched back towards earth
Above it, a movement -
A death to bring birth

Rays filtered, then poured
As a forefather fell
With the passing of giants
The stem could now tell but in this expanse
Where huge trees unraveled
A new plant was struggling
Where light seldom traveled

As it's withering strands
Arched back towards earth
Above it, a movement a death to bring birth

Rays filtered, then poured
As a forefather fell
With the passing of giants
The stem could now tell

That life would come quickly
And it did, as it gorged
Transformed by the day
As the fueling light forged

Fixated above the sky it's sole purpose
Its oblivious growth
Led the insects to surface

And small though they were
En masse, they had come to gnaw at it's base
As it reached for the Sun hope given over
To all that is brief amidst the detritus
Dead leaf upon leaf