The Trees
by Pulp

Album: We Love Life (2001)
Charted: 23
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  • I took an air rifle, shot a magpie to the ground
    And it died without a sound
    Your skin so pale against the fallen autumn leaves
    And no one saw us but the trees

    Yeah, the trees, those useless trees
    Produce the air that I am breathing
    Yeah, the trees, those useless trees
    They never said that you were leaving

    I carved your name with a heart just up above
    Now swollen, distorted, unrecognizable like our love
    The smell of leaf mold and the sweetness of decay
    Are the incense at the funeral procession here today

    In the trees, those useless trees
    Produce the air that I am breathing
    Yeah, the trees, those useless trees
    They never said that you were leaving

    You try to shape the world to what you want the world to be
    Carving your name a thousand times won't bring you back to me
    Oh no, I might as well, I might as well just go and tell it to the trees

    Oh yeah, the trees, those useless trees
    Produce the air that I am breathing
    Yeah, the trees, those useless trees
    They never said that you were leaving

    Go and tell it to the trees, yeah
    Go and tell it to the trees, yeah
    Go and tell it to the trees, yeah
    Go and tell it to the trees, yeah
    Go and tell it to the trees, yeah Writer/s: Candida Doyle, Jarvis Cocker, Mark Webber, Nick Banks, Peter Mansell, Stanley Myers, Stephen Mackey
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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