[Verse 1]
DF#m/DEm7/DD7 Feel the wind burn through my skin
Em7/DA7/DD The pain, the air is killing me
DF#m/DEm7/DD7 For years my limbs stretched to the sky
Em7/DA7/DD A nest for birds to sit and sing
GA7A#dimBmD7Em But now my branches suffer and my leaves don't bear the glow
F#mEm7/GA7D They did so long ago
 [Verse 2]
DF#m/DEm7/DD7 One day I was full of life
Em7/DA7/DD My sap was rich and I was strong
DF#m/DEm7/DD7 From seed to tree I grew so tall
Em7/DA7/DD Through wind and rain I could not fall
GA7A#dimBmD7Em But now my branches suffer and my leaves don't offer
F#mEm7/GA7D Poetry to men of song
 [Verse 3]
DF#m/DEm7/DD7Em7/D Trees like me weren't meant to live if all this world can give
A7/DD Is pollution and slow death
F#m/DFEm7/DD7Em7/D Oh Lord I lay me down no life's left to be found
A7/DD There's nothing left for me
(D) F#m/DEm7/DD7Em7/D Trees like me weren't meant to live if all this earth can give
A7/DD Is pollution
F#m/DEm7/DD7Em7/D Oh Lord I lay me down my branches to the ground
A7/DD