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Just gonna stand here until I learn
To use pesticides or let it burn

Just gonna stand here all day and night
But I don't know how long this marsh can fight
How long this marsh can fight


I can't tell you what it really is
I can only tell you what it looks like

it's a common reed with a tossel on the top, right?
I can't breathe all this phrag is closing in tight
As long as the marsh fights it's like theres still light

with all this sulfur its like I feel faint
It's like breathin nitrate and I hate it
The more I suffer, I suffocate

Right after phrag burns it resuscitates
dang, now we gotta drain and its expensive, Wait!
What you doin? I'm drainin it.

No it ain't. Come back. Its comin right back
Here we go again, phrag so insane
'Cause when it's gone, it's going great

but its wolverine, it can regenerate
this time its bad, it's awful
I feel discouraged, I shout, "What now?"

pesticides washed off from rain
tried my best on it, I thought it'd never come again
I guess I just don't know the phrags strength


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This phrag is an invasive, came here from across the sea
Can grow over 15 feet and the marsh don't even know what hit em
Environmentalists feeling-

Chills- looking at em
Now were're getting freakin' sick of lookin' at em
You thought that you could kill em, that it would be enough to burn em

But you found out that it ain't, sprayin' pesti-cides after ya cut em
Will get the land clear
For a little, but their back again

This time they've got an even stronger stem
It's the roots that's the problem, controls the growth
But they say it's best for you again to spray

Guess that they don't know it
Cause the phrag'll just be back again
Waste money usin' up more spray

Usin' black tarp to cover over
But the phragmites- is showin no restraint
This marsh doesn't have a chance

Not enough salt to keep it away, but you try again
Now you burn it all up so that it can't grow
But guess what the phrag is back again


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Now I know we took seeds, spread seeds but we didn't mean
For this phrag to go wild, to go free
Purple Lustrife's just as bad as Phrag is, can't you see

When I see this marsh I'm just reminded
Don't turn your back, say it wasn't you, can we just agree
That all this construction is as crazy as it seems

This is just what happens when a tornado meets a volcano
All I know is you'll build on this marsh if I walk away now
This marsh filters runoff from the sidewalk

Don't you hear sincerity in my voice when I talk?
Now theres not enough salt, this'll be a close call
Next time you dredge it's gone once and for all

Next time there won't be no next time
I hypothesize that this marsh is gonna die
If you try to dredge it just wont come back

You know I'm no liar if you ever try to freakin' dredge again
I'ma tie you to this Phrag and set this marsh on fire


Just gonna stand there and let it burn
I hope it's alright cause I'm kind of concerned
Just gonna stand here all day and night

But I don't know how long this marsh can fight
How long this marsh can fight