| Muziek in de Sleutel van het Leven, naar het gelijknamige legendarische album van Stevie Wonder uit 1976 |
If a tree falls in the forest, does anybody hear? zong Bruce Cockburn in 1988 op zijn langspeler Big Circumstance, een plaat waarop de Canadese singer/songwriter wijst op de ondergang die dreigt voor de laatste grote natuurgebieden en de gevolgen daarvan voor het ecologisch evenwicht op de planeet aarde.
Rain forest
Mist and mystery
Teeming green
Green brain facing labotomy
Climate control centre for the world
Ancient cord of coexistence
Hacked by parasitic greedhead scam –
From Sarawak to Amazonas
Costa Rica to mangy B.C. hills –
Cortege rhythm of falling timber.
What kind of currency grows in these new deserts,
These brand new flood plains?
If a tree falls in the forest does anybody hear?
If a tree falls in the forest does anybody hear?
Anybody hear the forest fall?
Cut and move on
Cut and move on
Take out trees
Take out wildlife at a rate of species every single day
Take out people who’ve lived with this for 100, 000 years –
Inject a billion burgers worth of beef –
Grain eaters – methane dispensers.
Through thinning ozone,
Waves fall on wrinkled earth –
Gravity, light, ancient refuse of stars,
Speak of a drowning –
But this, this is something other.
Busy monster eats dark holes in the spirit world
Where wild things have to go
To disappear
Forever
If a tree falls in the forest does anybody hear?
If a tree falls in the forest does anybody hear?
Anybody hear the forest fall?
