If A Tree Falls Lyrics

If a Tree Falls (Bruce Cockburn)

Rain Forest, Mist & Mystery
Teaming green,
Green brain facing lobotomy.
Climate control center for the world. 
Ancient core and Coexistence.
Hacked by parasitic greenhead scum.
From Saroac to Amazonous
Costa Rica to mangy 
Cortez rhythm    fallen timber
What kind of currency grows in these deserts?
These brand new flood plains.

Chorus:  If a tree falls in the forest 
	 Does anybody hear?

Cut and move on, cut and move on. 
Take out the trees,
Take out the wild life at a rate of
a species every single day.
Take out people who've lived with this for
100 thousand years.
Inject a billion burgers worth of beef.
Grain Eaters, Methane dispensers.
Through thinning Ozone, waves fall in wrinkled earth.
Gravity Light, & ancient refuse of stars.
Speak of the ground, but this is something other.
Dizzy Monster eats dark holes in the spirit world.
Where things have to go to disappear forever.