[Silence]
[Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums]
[Intro]
[Instrumental Intro: Low Piano Pulse, Sub Bass Drone, Wind FX, Gradual Percussion Build]
[Spoken Vocal, measured]
Read the layers
(Read the cores)
Ancient warnings
(In the spores)
[Organ Swell, Bass Enters]
[Verse 1]
Ice core air
(Trapped and rare)
Carbon rising
(Everywhere)
Oxygen isotopes
(Tell the slope)
Temperature swings
(Leave little hope)
[Pre-Chorus]
Hmmm… P.E.T.M.
(Seen before)
Ocean acid
(At the door)
[Chorus]
Signals in the sediment
(Loud and clear)
Past extinction events
(Draw us near)
The archive speaks
(Through time’s descent)
Will we heed
(What the strata meant?)
[Bridge – Breakdown]
[Percussion Drops to Tribal Pulse, Sub Bass Heartbeat]
Feedback loops
(Amplify)
Methane plumes
(In the sky)
Albedo loss
(Ice retreats)
Heat stacks up
(Repeat, repeat)
[Build: Synth Arpeggio Rising]
[Verse 2]
Sixty-six percent
(Gone from sight)
Sometimes eighty
(Out of light)
But now the primate
(Holds the flame)
Controls the lever
(Feeds the game)
Water stress
(Migration lines)
Borders harden
(Fractured minds)
[Chorus – Harder, Driving]
Signals in the sediment
(Loud and clear)
Past extinction events
(Draw us near)
Physics steady
(Behavior bent)
The fault line runs
(Through government)
[Instrumental Break]
[Guitar Solo — urgent, ascending scale]
[Saxophone Response — sharp, breathy]
[Snare March Builds to Full Kit]
[Bridge 2 – Spoken, Intensifying]
Climate hazard
(Pathogen spread)
Fifty-eight percent
(Disease ahead)
Not just warming
(System strain)
Compounding risk
(Networked pain)
[Final Chorus – Resolving Edge]
Signals in the sediment
(Not fate, but sign)
The past informs
(Our present line)
Extinction’s curve
(Is not pre-sent)
Choice rewrites
(The experiment)
[Outro]
[Music Drops to Piano + Soft Organ]
We read the cores
(We know the score)
The Earth has turned
(This way before)
But never once
(With hands like ours)
Holding cities
(Holding power)
[Spoken, calm but firm]
Paleoclimate
(Is not prophecy)
It’s memory.
[Fade on Sustained Organ + Wind FX]
From the album “Rewilding“