the trees are dying

brother martin and the intangibles

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'i am the lorax, i speak for the trees'

psychedelic jamband folk rock spiritual music political music conscious music buddhist music

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brother martin and the intangibles

psychedelic semi-acoustic folk rock with a conscience, a beat, and a smile

There's nothing I'd rather do than play music. I write my own songs, but also enjoy playing the work of Kate Wolf, Richard Thompson, the Grateful Dead, and many other musicians too numerous to mention. The songs I write tap into the same veins of insight, inspiration, and ecstasy that my favorite musicians channel so well.

Song Info

Genre

Beats • Beats General

Charts

Peak #1,844

Peak in subgenre #117

Author

Martin Holsinger, BMI

Uploaded

August 20, 2007

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.0 MB • 128 kbps • 3:14 minutes

Story behind the song

i work with a drum circle every wednesday night--trying to get us to do something coherent is like herding cats, but, like cats, we do get coherent pretty regularly--this, however, is me on all drums, not my drum circle buddies

Lyrics

the trees are dying, dying
the trees are dying, dying 
the trees are dying, dying, dying
they die for lumber
they die for firewood
they die for paper to fill landfills

they die for pasture 
they die for highways
they die for stripmalls
and trailer parks

they die from acid
that eats their leaves off
they die from insects beneath their bark

they die from dryness
they die from ozone
they die 'cause goats strip them bare

when too many trees die
we can all say goodbye
without them we won't last long

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