On Behalf of Trees

Lyrics

They say God got lonely and created us folk Did God do it in wisdom or as a sick joke? We're the image of Him, or the image of Her We're not wearing antlers, we're not born with fur But did God really know when He gave us all birth What havoc we'd wreak upon this good Earth? They say we're superior, the most highly evolved But in all these millennia, we still haven't solved How to live in this world harmoniously So we poisoned the atmospherе, rivers, and sea Take this summеr, for instance, so mind-blowingly hot It was not about what you could do, but could not Because of insecticides, couldn't eat peaches And with bloodied syringes, couldn't swim in the beaches To breathe was quite dangerous, not breathing was worse Till it seemed that merely surviving's a curse And when the rain falls from Nome to Lake Placid It isn't raining rain, you know it's raining lethal acid But I am speaking on behalf of some trees I think before trees we get down on our knees And say, "Thank you, O trees, for making air pure For without you, you dear trees, we might not endure." But how do we treat you? We slash and we burn you Uproot and bulldoze and generally spurn you Well, I've had enough, and I think God has too So as of this moment, here's what we'll do We come to our senses and begin to take care Or we'll wake up one morning and find we're not there So let's start positing the ozone and doing all we can To make God not ashamed He thought up Man