[Silence]
[Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums]
[Intro]
[Instrumental Intro: Low Drone, Distorted Bass Pulse, Rising Synth Static]
[Minimal Beat, Sub Bass, Spoken Vocal]
Runaway feedback
(Not abstract)
Permafrost burning
(That’s a fact)
[Organ Stabs, Driving Bass, Snare March]
Old assumption
(Slow thaw)
Observed reality
(Year-round fire, no law)
[Verse 1]
Frozen ground
(Not so sound)
Carbon locked
(Now unbound)
Thousands of years
(That was the claim)
Now it’s flame
(Changing the game)
Methane rising
(Some burns bright)
Natural flare?
(Not quite right)
Some converts
(CH4 to CO2)
Still heats the sky
(Still pushes through)
But much escapes
(Unburned release)
Radiative forcing
(Doesn’t cease)
[Chorus]
Welcome to the Ozone Zone
(Feedbacks fully grown)
Nonlinear
(Not overblown)
Orders of magnitude
(Faster than shown)
We’re past hypothetical
(It’s operational)
[Instrumental – Guitar Solo, Angular and Urgent]
[Verse 2]
Combustion adds
(Not just CO2)
NOx and VOCs
(Form something new)
Tropospheric ozone
(Ground-level harm)
Not the shield
(That blocks UV alarm)
Phytotoxic gas
(Leaves in distress)
Photosynthesis
(Less and less)
Ten to forty percent
(Growth decline)
Twenty to seventy
(In sensitive line)
Net primary productivity
(Undermined)
Carbon sinks
(Resigned)
[Bridge – Breakdown]
[Percussion Drops to Sub Bass Heartbeat]
[Spoken Vocal]
Forests once absorbed
(Now they emit)
Two short years
(The balance flipped)
Old-growth canopy
(Forty percent gone)
Vertical structure
(Shortened and drawn)
[Build: Synth Arpeggio Rising, Tension Climbing]
Wildfire feeds
(Ozone breeds)
Ozone weakens
(Resilience recedes)
[Chorus]
Welcome to the Ozone Zone
(Compound and prone)
Systems coupled
(Overthrown)
Sink to source
(The die is thrown)
Cascading instability
(Globally known)
[Verse 3]
Asthma rising
(Lungs inflamed)
Cardio stress
(Children blamed)
Heat plus ozone
(Deadly blend)
Public health
(On a bend)
Nonlinear math
(Threshold crossed)
Gradual change?
(Irreversible cost)
Century-scale
(Compressed to years)
Model spread
(Meets real fears)
[Bridge – Scientific Interlude]
[Minimal Beat, Spoken Vocal, Clinical Tone]
Carbon combustion
(Increases forcing)
Ozone formation
(Secondary sourcing)
Permafrost thaw
(Wildfire ignition)
Feedback loops
(Self-amplification)
Mapping the frontier
(Not just emission)
Quantifying tipping
(System transition)
[Final Chorus – Intensified]
Welcome to the Ozone Zone
(Feedbacks unknown)
Nonlinear Earth
(Overthrown)
Track the pace
(Quantify the zone)
Civilization’s margin
(Narrowly sown)
[Outro]
[Instrumental – Sustained Organ, Slow Drum Pulse]
Runaway feedback
(Not theory alone)
We’re living inside
(The Ozone Zone)
Measure the scale
(Define the line)
Before abrupt
(Becomes the sign)
[Fade – Low Bass Pulse Dissolves into Static]
From the album “Rewilding“