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Save the trees

Save the trees

Burn them down to

Save the trees

Start your engines

Fuel machines

Jet black hearts

& coal debris

Petrol fires

Human greed

Art Van sales

Two for three

Save the trees

Save the trees

Smell that chainsaw potpourri

Chop em up

Cut em down

Kick in Mother Nature's door

Wildlife

Homes are lost

But that's what zoos are for

Replace each forest with a city

So grey, so cold, so "clean"

Then watch us bicker amongst ourselves

On how to make the city "green"

Save the trees

Save the trees

We fight, we holler

"Save the trees!"

"Save the oceans!"

"Save the ozone!"

"The ice caps, leave them be!"

Contradiction is the very core of the human way

"Save the trees!"

Carved into the trees you're trying to save

Papers, posters, picket signs

The ones we wave and read

Shaved off of your precious trees

They died, your flames to feed

You say you love them

Hold them dear

You talk of righteous deeds

We sign away our lives to you

To save us in our need

You take our money

You take our words

Then take our breath away

You bleed the Earth

For what it's worth

While in the dirt we pray

And still you hurt and prey

On those who cannot pay

You leave us in the fray

Tossing back a dried bouquet

Made of plastic

...

You're laughing

We're dying

We're clapping

You're crying

Each tear is solid gold

And in your piggy bank it's frying

And though you say you're trying

We all know that you're lying

Because we all invested in you

And we don't see the help you're buying

We see the cars you're driving

We see you're happy, smiling

We see the money piling

In the house that you're designing

We see the clouds

We see the storm

But we see no silver lining

You must've stripped that from us too

While you were up there mountain climbing

Guess golf had gotten boring

With nothing to putt around

So you started exploring

To get away from the sound

Of us crying out for help

All our desperate wails and pleas

How could we save ourselves

When we couldn't save the trees?

Description

Save the trees

Save the trees

Burn them down to

Save the trees

Start your engines

Fuel machines

Jet black hearts

& coal debris

Petrol fires

Human greed

Art Van sales

Two for three

Save the trees

Save the trees

Smell that chainsaw potpourri

Chop em up

Cut em down

Kick in Mother Nature's door

Wildlife

Homes are lost

But that's what zoos are for

Replace each forest with a city

So grey, so cold, so "clean"

Then watch us bicker amongst ourselves

On how to make the city "green"

Save the trees

Save the trees

We fight, we holler

"Save the trees!"

"Save the oceans!"

"Save the ozone!"

"The ice caps, leave them be!"

Contradiction is the very core of the human way

"Save the trees!"

Carved into the trees you're trying to save

Papers, posters, picket signs

The ones we wave and read

Shaved off of your precious trees

They died, your flames to feed

You say you love them

Hold them dear

You talk of righteous deeds

We sign away our lives to you

To save us in our need

You take our money

You take our words

Then take our breath away

You bleed the Earth

For what it's worth

While in the dirt we pray

And still you hurt and prey

On those who cannot pay

You leave us in the fray

Tossing back a dried bouquet

Made of plastic

...

You're laughing

We're dying

We're clapping

You're crying

Each tear is solid gold

And in your piggy bank it's frying

And though you say you're trying

We all know that you're lying

Because we all invested in you

And we don't see the help you're buying

We see the cars you're driving

We see you're happy, smiling

We see the money piling

In the house that you're designing

We see the clouds

We see the storm

But we see no silver lining

You must've stripped that from us too

While you were up there mountain climbing

Guess golf had gotten boring

With nothing to putt around

So you started exploring

To get away from the sound

Of us crying out for help

All our desperate wails and pleas

How could we save ourselves

When we couldn't save the trees?