Wood Wide Web (Talking Trees)

You walk into a forest, everything is calm and green Just a silent, peaceful kingdom, the most tranquil you have seen But underneath the soil, where the roots all intertwine There's a secret conversation on a biological line A whisper through the mycelium, a message in the loam No tree is an island, every giant has a home It's the Wood Wide Web, the forest's deep-down beat A fungal internet running right beneath your feet Sharing sun and sugar, sending warnings in the dark

Yeah, the trees are always talking from the root up to the bark Oh, the Wood Wide Web, it’s a subterranean show Helping everybody grow, grow, grow! The fungus needs the carbon that the leaves make in the sun The tree needs extra water, so a partnership's begun It’s a symbiotic network, a microscopic trade A nutrient delivery service, beautifully made From the ancient mother birch tree to the sapling, small and new Resources flow like data, making sure they all pull through

It's the Wood Wide Web, the forest's deep-down beat A fungal internet running right beneath your feet Sharing sun and sugar, sending warnings in the dark Yeah, the trees are always talking from the root up to the bark Oh, the Wood Wide Web, it’s a subterranean show Helping everybody grow, grow, grow! So when a beetle army comes to chew up all the leaves A signal flashes through the web, a warning it conceives The other trees get ready, boost their chemical defense

It's a forest-wide community, it just makes perfect sense It isn't competition, it's a cooperative design All connected, all protected, on the fungal power line It's the Wood Wide Web, the forest's deep-down beat A fungal internet running right beneath your feet Sharing sun and sugar, sending warnings in the dark Yeah, the trees are always talking from the root up to the bark Oh, the Wood Wide Web, it’s a subterranean show Helping everybody grow, grow, grow!