Benjamin William Hastings - Cathedrals Of The Nelder Grove

Chorus / Description : I'm just trying to make a record
Forty texts and nine missed calls
They stripped the paint from our cathedral
Found concrete cancer in the walls

Cathedrals Of The Nelder Grove Lyrics

I'm just trying to make a record
Forty texts and nine missed calls
They stripped the paint from our cathedral
Found concrete cancer in the walls

Look I don't care about the failings
?Cause I've got plenty of my own
But the inclination to conceal it
Well that doesn't sound like church at all

I've heard hell is out to get us
Some unrighteous grand assault
I could argue it?s the devil
But I could make a case for God

The Pharisee, The Woke, The Wayward
It?s just three different shades of pride
So like white blood cells protect a body
Perhaps that's how God heals a bride

(I don't know what to say, but that I cried)

You know I?ve sang before about sequoias
I guess we?re more than just one song alike
But as I sit and mourn here in the garden
Indulge me please
Just one more time

We tower high above our brothers
We reign the sky, but for a time
Alas, we serve beneath the soil
Where our death just makes a way for life

We?re here right now in the railroad fire of 2017.
Four years ago in the Nelder Grove of Giant Sequoias, and right now we?re standing in an area that burned at low intensity. The fire burned in a mix like all wildfires do;
It was mostly low and moderate intensity, but there was a portion that burned at high intensity as well. And the interesting thing and for me as an Ecologist, the important thing is that in the low intensity fire areas, there is no giant sequoia reproduction, none. None from before the fire, none after the fire, because what they need for that is high intensity fire. In other words, it?s fire that?s intense enough that it actually will kill some of the mature giant sequoias but what you get in the bargain is hundreds of times more giant sequoias.

You can?t change where you've been
But you have where you are
Every start has its end
But every end is a start

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