Who Eats Who

Grass eats sunlight, that's where the party begins Rabbit eats grass, and the rabbit thinks it wins Fox eats rabbit, hawk eats the smaller birds too Everyone's on somebody's menu, including you

Who eats who, it's a web, wide and entwined Who eats who, everybody's clock, everybody's time Pull the fox out, and the rabbits multiply too fast Eat all the grass down, and the whole floor doesn't last

Skip the ladder picture, it's messier than that Some things eat three tiers down, some cross both ways A bear eats berries and salmon in the same afternoon Every real web's got more crossings than a ladder's got room

Who eats who, it's a web, wide and entwined Who eats who, everybody's clock, everybody's time Take out the wolves, the whole valley starts to bend Rivers change shape from a predator gone, that's not the end

Even the eaten get their turn, when the body's done The beetles and the fungus matter plenty, they're the ones Who take the last plate, turn it back into the ground So the grass can eat the sunlight and the whole thing comes back around

Who eats who, it's a web, wide and entwined Who eats who, everybody's clock, everybody's time Every death feeds a birth somewhere down the chain Who eats who keeps the whole dancefloor sustained