If a Tree Falls

A tree fell in my forest
If a Tree Falls.  by Bruce Cockburn, 1988

Rain forest
Mist and mystery
Teeming green
Green brain facing lobotomy
Climate control centre for the world
Ancient cord of coexistence
Hacked by parasitic greedhead scam
From Costa Rica to mangy B.C. hills
Cortege rhythm of falling
timber

What kind of currency grows in these new desserts
These brand new flood plains?

If a tree falls in the forest, does anybody hear?

If a tree falls in the forest, does anybody hear forest falling?

Anybody hear the forest falling

Cut and move on
Cut and move on
Take out trees
Take out wildlife at a rate of species every single day
Take out people who've lived with this for 100,000 years
Inject a billion burgers worth of beef
Grain eaters methane dispensers

Through thinning o-zone
Waves fall on wrinkled earth
Gravity, light, ancient reface of stars
Speak of a drowning
But this, this is something other
Busy monster eats dark holes in the spirit world
Where wild things have to go
To disappear
Forever

If a tree falls in the forest, does anybody hear

If a tree falls in the forest, does anybody hear

Anybody hear the forest falling

If a tree falls in the forest, does anybody hear

If a tree falls in the forest,does anybody hear

Anybody hear the forest falling

If a tree falls in the forest

If a tree falls in the forest

If a tree falls in the forest.

My husband and my son, sharing some quality father/son time in beautiful British Columbia, will be attending a Bruce Cockburn concert tonight.

And a tree fell in my forest…..

My sunlight forest
I love my forest 
I love my trees
I love their buds
I love their leaves.

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