The Photosynthesis Beat

Just a single green leaf, hanging out on a vine Soaking up the morning, waiting for a sign My roots are pulling water from the ground below I'm breathing in the carbon that the animals blow Got my tiny solar panels, they're called chloroplasts, you see Ready to cook a meal with a sunbeam recipe Give me sunlight, give me water, and some CO₂ I'll make sugary power, and fresh oxygen for you It's photosynthesis, the planet's factory beat I'm turnin' light into life, oh, ain't that sweet?

From a single-celled algae to the tallest redwood tree We're the green machines of energy! Inside my cells, the chlorophyll is the star of the show It's what makes me green, it captures light and makes me glow It splits a water molecule, a process clean and fast Releases oxygen so this whole wide world can last Then it takes that captured power, in a second clever stage And builds a sugar molecule to turn a brand new page Give me sunlight, give me water, and some CO₂ I'll make sugary power, and fresh oxygen for you

It's photosynthesis, the planet's factory beat I'm turnin' light into life, oh, ain't that sweet? From a single-celled algae to the tallest redwood tree We're the green machines of energy! So every apple that you crunch, every piece of bread you chew Started with a sunbeam, some water, and CO₂ Every breath you take, that air so fresh and deep Was a gift from a green leaf, while the world was fast asleep We're the bottom of the food chain, the engine and the heart Playing our essential, scientific part

Give me sunlight, give me water, and some CO₂ I'll make sugary power, and fresh oxygen for you It's photosynthesis, the planet's factory beat I'm turnin' light into life, oh, ain't that sweet? From a single-celled algae to the tallest redwood tree We're the green machines of energy!