Genesis - The return of the giant hogweed - 2008 - remaster lyrics

Turn and run Nothing can stop them Around every river and can*l Their power is growing Stamp them out We must destroy them They infiltrate each city With their thick dark warning odour 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 Hogweed To the Royal Gardens at Kew Waste 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 photosensitize 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 our anger k** them with your hogweed hairs Heracleum Mantegazziani Giant Hogweed lives!