Volcanic Song

Ooh shield is widening Like a sloping wide mountain And they form, lava pouring layers Making the Hawaiian Isles Ooh there's composite Lava and ash makes layers And cinder cones be Cone-shaped steep When they clog, both can blow their tops Magma is filling from mantle It's coming to surface We see them at divergent plates Ring of Fire place And subduction zone edges Extinct they are dead Active they are live Dormant they will sleep in the meantime It's all of three kinds, Living in a world volcanic Maybe we should panic Maybe they're bombastic Could be pyroclastic The chamber is molten Anytime the magmas flowing All the way up pipe and vent to Collecting in the crater wide It is temperature, thickness, dissolved gas That will, determine, type of eruption Some are thin for real, viscous others feel They could jam and clog the pipe Magma is filling from mantle It's coming to surface We see them at divergent plates Ring of Fire place And subduction zone edges Extinct they are dead Active they are live Dormant they will sleep in the meantime It's all of three kinds, Living in a world volcanic (the world volcanic-anic) Geysers, hot springs, water gets heat Like a boiling pot from magma beneath They're one of a kind, rising as steam and gasses Maybe they're just trappin' Maybe ground is crackin' Maybe water is blasting Amount of gas and the silica And also temperature can determine how it's thick Mount St. Helens in the 80's, Pinatubo in the 90's Mt. Vesuvius 79 Ad, crazy Amount of silica content Pahoehoe is fast and AA is less Fuji, Etna, Tambora, Cotopaxi Sure they're timeless, just volcanic Extinct they are dead Active they are live Dormant they will sleep in the meantime It's all of three kinds, Living in a world volcanic (the world volcanic-anic) Geysers, hot springs, water gets heat Like a boiling pot from magma beneath They're one of a kind, rising up as steam and gasses Maybe they're just trappin' Maybe ground is crackin' Maybe water is blasting