Intro
G 
 
Verse 1
 
Feel the wind burn through my skin 
    C         G 
The pain, the air is k*lling me 
 
For years my limbs stretched to the sky 
  Am       C                G 
A nest for birds to sit and sing 
 
Verse 2
    C      D                Em 
But now my branches suffer 
       G                     Am 
And my leaves don't bear the glow 
      C           G 
They did so long ago 
 
Verse 3
C       G     C       G 
One day I was full of life 
   C       D          G 
My sap was rich and I was strong 
                    C       G 
From seed to tree I grew so tall 
        C        D                G 
Through wind and rain I could not fall 
 
Verse 4
    C      D        Cm      Em 
But now my branches suffer 
       C  G                Am 
And my leaves don't offer 
   D             G 
Poetry to men of song 
 
Verse 5
                               C 
Trees like me weren't meant to live 
   G                  C 
If all this world can give 
   G 
Pollution and slow death 
 
Verse 6
                    
Oh, lord, I lay me down 
                      Am     G 
There's no life to be found 
 
There's nothing left for a tree like me