The Age of Enlichenment by Allie Weill

It's symbiotic.
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Copyright Allie Weill 2017
Words, lyrics, banjolele, vocals by Allie Weill
Produced by The Jeff Kessler Experience
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I used to go out walking, climbed on rocks and measured trees
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Looked for tracks of animals, heard the buzzing of the bees
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Didn't I was missing something wonderful and strange
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But then I was enlichened, and I was forever changed!

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Come and be enlichened by these tiny fungi farms
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Come look through my hand lens, awaken to their charms!

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First I learned the basics--the crusts and leafs and hair
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And how they take in everything that's floating in the air
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How to key a lichen out, test for a metabolite
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How in reproduction spore and algae must unite

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Come and be enlichened by these tiny fungi farms
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Come look through my hand lens, awaken to their charms!

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Later on the lessons starting getting more advanced
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Lichens forming soil crusts, lichens on the leaves of plants
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Lichens moving round the world on the legs of beasts
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And the great new lichen partner, the mystery of yeasts!

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Come and be enlichened by these tiny fungi farms
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Come look through my hand lens, awaken to their charms!

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Now I go out walking and there's so much to see!
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Xanthoria is glowing on nearly every tree!
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I pack my wounds with Usnea, lichens are filling up my car
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And I'm laying out the plans for a lichen brandy bar!

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Come and be enlichened by these tiny fungi farms
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Come look through my hand lens, awaken to their charms!