Soil Food Web (feat. Brenna Quinlan)

There's a whole world down there

Down where? I'll tell you where

Right under your feet where the land and plants meet

It's the Soil Food Web and it's a bangin' good time

Come on down underground and meet some friends of mine

I'm flatulent! I mean, a flagellate

I got this whippy tail, can you imagine it?

I got a motion promotion in the primordial ocean

To get me swimmin' around, now I'm smashing it!

I'm Amoeba, I'm a-you-ba

A shapeshifter

Look, I'm a tuba!

I slip around like a blob doing my job

And sometimes I'm slime mould with the mob

I'm the Arch Nemetode, you get bad rap

When you're nothin but a tube that moves and unattractive

Not a villain, just a bit of killin' with four hundred quintillion siblings

What's wrong with that!?

Fungus saprophyte

And Bacteria's back, alright!

They be eating and breeding and moving dancing and creeping

It's like a party going on right under your nose

If you know some folks with a microscope

Get em to show you the ropes and check the life below

It's the soil food web

What?

Get it in your head

And your garden bed

Alright!

The soil food web

Huh?

That's what I said

And it's how we're fed

Come and take a ride on the nutrient cycle

It's always breaking down, but that's what it's like yo!

It's kind of the point! If it didn't pretty soon

We'd have junk piled up all the way to the moon!

Don't let anyone tell you that compost ain't boss

Without it life would stop

Like, actually

So cover the soil with mulch, shade and plants

And discover the joy of the soil food web dance

It's the soil food web

What?

Get it in your head

And your garden bed

Alright!

The soil food web

Huh?

That's what I said

And it's how we're fed