The Return Of The Giant Hogweed

Song The Return Of The Giant Hogweed
Artist Genesis
Album Genesis 1970-1975

Lyrics

Turn and run, nothing can stop them
Around every river and canal their power is growing
Stamp them out, we must destroy them
They infiltrate each city with their thick dark warning odor
They are invincible
They seem immune to all our herbicidal battering
Long ago in the
Russian hills
A Victorian explorer found
The regal
Hogweed by a marsh
He captured it and brought it home
Botanical creature stirs, seeking revenge
Royal beast did not forget
He came home to
London and made a present of the
HogweedTo the
Royal Gardens at
KewWaste no time, they are approaching
Hurry now, we must protect ourselves and find some shelter
Strike by night they are defenseless
They all need the sun to photo sensitize their venom
Still they're invincible
Still they're immune to all our herbicidal battering
Fashionable country gentlemen had some cultivated wild gardens
In which they innocently planted the giant
Hogweed throughout the land
Botanical creature stirs, seeking revenge
Royal beast did not forget
Soon they escaped, spreading their seed preparing for an onslaught
Threatening the human race
Mighty Hogweed is avenged
Human bodies soon will know, anger
Kill them with your
Hogweed hairs
Heracleun
Mantegazzani