The Return Of Giant Hogweed Songtext / Lyric

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 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



Kill them

With your

Hogweed hairs

Heracleum

Mantegazziani