A Day in the Life of a Tree

Song ratings

Rating	Comments	Author	Date
	Jack Rieley's deep sludgy voice certainly is a shock to the ears of a longtime Beach Boys fan! He delivers the lead vocal of the only new Brian Wilson song, a rather bizarre lyric about a tree singing in the first person about the demolition of his kind due to the mistreatment of the land. As this song nears its end, and the rest of the band joins in with the rich harmonies, note how the lyrics mirror those of the song which comes next...	Bruce Beatlefan	November 18, 2008

Lyrics

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

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