I went to the country   to escape the noise and lights   I laid there in the pine cones all night   I woke in the morning   and all the trees were gone   I got this sinking feeling   everything felt wrong      There were strip malls and dollar stores   and diesel in the air   So I slept in a row boat   and I anchored far from shore   Now I don't hear them chainsaws no more      I woke in the morning   when someone pulled the plug   I was stranded in the lake bottom sludge   With all the tires, paint cans and things      Well,      Every little critter   with feather, fur & fin   cried to Mother Nature   to come back for them   for every piece of litter   for every little sin   She cried for all of them   feather, fur & fin   She cried for all of them   feather, fur & fin      So I went to an island   down the Caribbean way   And I laid there in the sand all day   I turned on a radio   and I heard the DJ say:   Well, batten down the hatches   down Santa Elena way   I swam the ocean reef,   with coral all was gray      Every little critter   with feather, fur & fin   cried to Mother Nature   to come back for them   for every piece of litter   for every little sin   She cried for all of them   feather, fur & fin   She cried for all of them   feather, fur & fin      She saw the eagle's eye   weeping in the willow   She prayed to the mantis   and she cried into her pillow   for the salmon in the Fraser   and the salamander's kin      She cried for all of them   feather, fur & fin   She cried for all of them   feather, fur & fin      Well, I went to the city   when all the trees were gone   and I laid there on a asphalt lawn   And she cried out a thousand days   of hurricanes and floods   Her face ran with tears   and the streets ran with blood   Fur coats and sushi boats   and diesel in the air      Every little critter   with feather, fur & fin   cried to Mother Nature   to come back for them   for every piece of litter   for every little sin   She cried for all of them   feather, fur & fin   She cried for all of them   feather, fur & fin      Feather, fur & fin   she cried for all of them   for feather, fur & fin,   she cried for every fin