If A Tree Falls - Bruce Cockburn

    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 Sarawak to Amazonas
    Costa Rica to mangy B.C. hills --
    cortege rhythm of falling timber.

    What kind of currency grows in these new deserts,
    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?
    Anybody hear the forest fall?

    Cut and move on
    Cut and move on
    take out trees
    take out wildlife at a rate of a 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 ozone,
    waves fall on wrinkled earth --
    gravity, light, ancient refuse 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 fall?

    (Toronto, April 7, 1988)
     
     

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