© stfaivus,1996

More sands come 

pushing me deeper 

with each season sands come 

pushing me down 

pushing me down

I get buried 

deep underground

I 'm pushed down

by the sands above 

stone-leached cements

coming around 

cold- pressed 

I 'm tightly bound

Sedimentary can form 

under the sea 

under river beds and sand dunes

it can also be

Finally I realize 

I'm in parts no more 

I'm a new sedimentary rock 

buried deep under the shore

I'm the one with fossils 

the softest rock, they say

I can be rough, sandy, 

chalky or clay

Sedimentary 

is elementary 

layers of sand 

come from all over the land 

and they turn to rock

now let 's rock

A sedimentary rock 

under the sea I lay 

but new sands keep piling up 

having their say

So further down I go 

I'm pushed down

heat and pressure’s  rising 

I'm beginning to frown 

Still more sediments come 

further down I go 

rising heat and pressure's 

beginning to show

Melting pressing 

too much on my back

my crystals're melting 

I'm under attack

Now I'm coarse hard rock 

my fossils are gone

I have bent lines 

which my crystals are on

Deep in the earth 

or around a magma-filled split

heat and pressure 

get legit

I'm hard 

and I can be coarse 

my crystals had time to cool

of course

Metamorphic 

I'm here to say

is when heat and pressure 

have their way

Now I've been Igneous, 

Sedimentary,and Metamorphic

where will I go next 

my life isn't over yet

There' s a crack I could get messed up with 

in the middle of the sea

melted rock pushing up 

new basalt it will be

heavy iron black rock 

making new ocean floor

at land old rock must make room 

pushing back down to the core

Where ocean floor meets land 

the heavy basalt buckles down

with water and friction 

it  churns and melts underground

Old rock turns to new rock 

melted again

it can cool underground 

or shoot back to the surface again

Now our song ends 

back where it began 

rocks slowly changing 

all over the land

Take any rock 

heat and press

it becomes Metamorphic

Take any rock 

melt and cool

it becomes Igneous

Take any rock erode,

cold press 

it becomes Sedimentary

Metamorphic 

I'm here to say 

is when heat and pressure 

have their way

Now don't make a fuss 

here comes igneous

it' s when melted rock 

cools in pools

Sedimentary 

is elementary 

layers of sand 

come from all over the land 

and they turn to rock

now let's rock