Story Behind The Song

about cruel and thoughtless people

Song Description

Please forgive the mp3 distortion. The original was clean.

Lyrics

No one believed you, you said it was wrong
Now the ground has gone bare and the trees are all gone

Somehow the fortunes of nature have turned
For since we?ve arrived seems nothing?s been learned

So many fortunes you?ve won and have lost
What was the reward and what was the cost

And the leaves fall
And the vines grow
And the birds sing no more

Once you were running alive and so free
Now your cage has shut tight no freedom to be

Once such a beautiful coat that you wore
Reduced to a pelt for sale in a store

All of the treasures we had once and lost
What was the reward, and what was the cost

And the leaves fall
And the vines grow
And the birds sing no more

(So many lifetimes it once took to change
now the rhythm has lost what time had arranged)