Sunlight's Recipe

I'm a little leaf, high up on a tree Feeling kinda hungry, just wait and you will see I'm drinking up the rain that's seeping through my roots Breathing in the air you exhale from your flutes I'm waiting for the sun to start its morning climb 'Cause that's the secret ingredient, every single time Gimme sunlight, gimme water, gimme CO2 It's the magic recipe to make my energy anew Inside my chloroplasts, a factory so green It's photosynthesis, the greatest scene!

I'm making sugar for my lunch, and here's a gift for you I'm breathing out the oxygen for the air you're breathing through! The light hits my chlorophyll, a jolt of energy It splits the H2O, setting hydrogen free That power grabs the carbon from the air all around A brand new sugar molecule is what I have found It's glucose, it's the fuel that helps me grow so tall A tiny, perfect power-up, answering nature's call Gimme sunlight, gimme water, gimme CO2 It's the magic recipe to make my energy anew

Inside my chloroplasts, a factory so green It's photosynthesis, the greatest scene! I'm making sugar for my lunch, and here's a gift for you I'm breathing out the oxygen for the air you're breathing through! So next time you take a breath, so fresh and deep and clean Remember all the work done by this little green machine From the biggest forest to the smallest blade of grass We're turning light to life, a process built to last It's the foundation for the food on every chain We're doing it all day, in sunshine and in rain!

Gimme sunlight, gimme water, gimme CO2 It's the magic recipe to make my energy anew Inside my chloroplasts, a factory so green It's photosynthesis, the greatest scene! I'm making sugar for my lunch, and here's a gift for you I'm breathing out the oxygen for the air you're breathing through!