IntroVerse 1He Was Mostly Made Of Sticks And LeavesAnd Other Forest FeaturesWe Found Him, RootlessA Crow Exploring His InnardsWe Took Him Home, Propped Him UpIn The Warm Leather ArmchairAnd Rearranged His CrownOf Yellow And BrownHe Wasn’t Much Of A TalkerSo We Just Listened To His RustlingThough A Strange Kind Of WisdomSeemed To Emanate OutFrom His Acorn Eyes And Almond BrowBut When He Was AngryHis Nostrils Flared UpLike Pinecones On FireChorus 1We Loved Him For His TruthLoved His Down-To-Earth WaysAnd How We Breathed InWhat He Breathed OutA Slow ExistenceSymbiotic And SilentWhere He Breathed InWhat We Breathed OutVerse 2We Tried To Dress Him In Silks And VelvetBut He Preferred To Go Au NaturelWhich Meant That Any Company Invited RoundHad To Be Warned Just In CaseBare Bark And Depetaled FlowersEmbarrassed Our City FriendsMore Used To Plastic TulipsAnd Paintings Of TreesThe Second To Worst Day Was When The Dog Got OutAnd Wrestled Him To The GroundTore At His Timber HeartAnd Chewed On Log LimbsWe Soothed The Bite Marks With WalnutsRubbing The Gashes Until LevelAnd Only A Slightly Lighter ShadeThan His Autumn-Tinged SkinChorus 2We Loved Him For His TruthLoved His Down-To-Earth WaysAnd How We Breathed InWhat He Breathed OutA Slow ExistenceSymbiotic And SilentWhere He Breathed InWhat We Breathed OutBridgeAnd Then Lightning StruckWho Knows If Cigarette Or CandleOr Wall PlugBut With Backs Turned He Was GoneBlack Flakes Stained The CouchWhile Embers Cried Then CooledWe Put Him On The Compost HeapThough Our Youngest Kept A TwigA Shrivelled SproutPointing Downwards In A Glass JarChorus 3We Loved Him For His TruthLoved His Down-To-Earth WaysAnd How We Breathed InWhat He Breathed OutA Slow ExistenceSymbiotic And SilentWhere He Breathed InWhat We Breathed OutChorus 4We Loved Him For His TruthLoved His Down-To-Earth WaysAnd How We Breathed InWhat He Breathed OutA Slow ExistenceSymbiotic And SilentWhere He Breathed InWhat We Breathed Out
