Feel the wind burn through my skin   The pain, the air is killing me   For years my limbs stretched to the sky   A nest for birds to sit and sing      But now my branches suffer   And my leaves don't bear the glow   They did so long ago      One day i was full of life   My sap was rich and i was strong   From seed to tree i grew so tall   Through wind and rain i could not fall      But now my branches suffer   And my leaves don't offer   Poetry to men of song      Trees like me weren't meant to live   If all this world can give      Pollution and slow death      Oh lord i lay me down   No life's left to be found   There's nothing left for me      Trees like me weren't meant to live   If all this earth can give   Is pollution      Trees like me weren't meant to live   (oh lord i lay me down)   If all this earth can give   (my branches to the ground)   Is pollution and slow death   (there's nothing left for me)      Oh lord i lay me down   My branches to the ground   There's nothing left for me