The Sunlight Recipe

I'm just a little leaf, hanging on a tree Feeling kinda hungry, need some energy My roots are deep in soil, drinking H₂O Stretching to the sky, waiting for the glow Give me sunlight, water, and some CO₂! It's the recipe for magic that I'm gonna do Photosynthesis! Turnin' light into a treat Makin' my own sugar, oh the taste is so sweet! Photosynthesis! Yeah, the cycle is complete! I've got a secret engine, it's called chlorophyll

It's the part that makes me green and it never stands still It catches every sunbeam, a solar-powered net My tiny little pores, the smallest you have met They breathe in all the carbon that you're breathing out Mixing up the magic, there can be no doubt Give me sunlight, water, and some CO₂! It's the recipe for magic that I'm gonna do Photosynthesis! Turnin' light into a treat Makin' my own sugar, oh the taste is so sweet! Photosynthesis! Yeah, the cycle is complete!

But wait, there is a bonus, a gift I give for free A little something extra, for you and not for me That fresh and clean new oxygen, the air you need to live? That’s the beautiful leftover that I have to give So take a breath and think of me, the flower or the tree Give me sunlight, water, and some CO₂! It's the recipe for magic that I'm gonna do Photosynthesis! Turnin' light into a treat Makin' my own sugar, oh the taste is so sweet! Photosynthesis! Yeah, the cycle is complete!