[Verse 1]
Little hands in the backyard dirt
Name carved small in the old birch bark
Grandma’s swing on a crooked branch
Whole world hung in that half-yard
[Pre-Chorus]
Do you remember
Where you learned to dream
It was roots and rings and shade we shared
Not some distant screen
[Chorus]
Don’t cut down the trees
That’s our past in the leaves
That’s our future in the seeds you’re holding
Every ring is a year
Every year brought us here
Can’t you feel how the whole world’s woven
So please
Don’t cut down the trees
[Verse 2]
First kiss hidden where the branches bend
Rain came down but we didn’t care
You swore you’d build me a house one day
Right there
Right there
[Pre-Chorus]
Can you remember
What the silence meant
How the wind wrote little lullabies
Through every crack and dent
[Chorus]
Don’t cut down the trees
That’s our past in the leaves
That’s our future in the seeds you’re holding
Every ring is a year
Every year brought us here
Can’t you feel how the whole world’s woven
So please
Don’t cut down the trees
[Bridge]
One falls
Then another
Soon the hill looks bare
What will you tell your daughter
When there’s no shade there (oh no)
Count the cost in summers
Not just in cash and stone
What’s a house of wonder
If it stands alone
[Chorus]
Don’t cut down the trees
That’s our past in the leaves
That’s our future in the seeds you’re holding
Every ring is a year
Every year brought us here
Can’t you feel how the whole world’s woven
So please
Don’t cut down the trees
(Please)
Don’t cut down the trees