The Green Machine

Sitting in the garden, with my roots down in the ground Feeling kind of hungry with no food to be found But then the sun comes peeking, a golden, glowing ray My little leaves start reaching up, it's time to start the day I take a long deep drink of water, through my roots and stem And breathe the air you breathe right out, I breathe it in again Gimme sunlight, gimme water, gimme CO2! That's the recipe for energy, it's what the green things do We're a chemical reaction, a sweet and simple feast

Making sugar for our power, and oxygen released! We're the green machine, oh, the green machine! Turning light into the greatest power you've ever seen! Inside every single leaf are worlds you cannot see Tiny little factories all working hard for me They're called the chloroplasts, they're the engines of the cell And the chlorophyll's the pigment, that's how you can always tell It's the stuff that makes us green and it's a perfect solar trap It catches all the photons and there is no turning back

Gimme sunlight, gimme water, gimme CO2! That's the recipe for energy, it's what the green things do We're a chemical reaction, a sweet and simple feast Making sugar for our power, and oxygen released! We're the green machine, oh, the green machine! Turning light into the greatest power you've ever seen! You might think this little process is only about a tree But from the apple that you're eating, to the air that sets you free It all starts here, a quiet miracle you can't see

We're the bottom of the food chain, we're the reason you can breathe Gimme sunlight, gimme water, gimme CO2! That's the recipe for energy, it's what the green things do We're a chemical reaction, a sweet and simple feast Making sugar for our power, and oxygen released! We're the green machine, oh, the green machine! Turning light into the greatest power you've ever seen!