The 3rd track on my album 'Mantle'.

Lyrics:

Layer by layer, we’re living in layers

People of two floors, same grain, same makers

Hidden underground, beneath the surface

We only rise when the earth is disturbed, yes

We act in the land by the land’s own manner

Many lands stacked one on another

Folded in crust, bent into order

Placed into piles — but who was the author?

Stratum

And muddy soil finds its own scent

If you dare to breathe it in, to comprehend

It’s only earth in the end

Whose land is it — yours or mine?

We believe in layers that ownership’s defined

And we learn to lie about what’s on top

Smoothly, in layers, describing the mask

Stratum

And muddy soil finds its own scent

If you dare to breathe it in, to comprehend

It’s only earth in the end