A seed fell from the skynIt landed on the grass planted its roots and just waited there to dienIt felt the summer sunnIt felt the winter's freezenAnd then when the springtime camenThe wind brought little babiesnnTree, go highnnFarmers come and farmers gonBut the farmers and their childrennMy future they'll never knownI fed their family when times were slownBut they won't remember menThey'll just remember how much apple pie they ate in '83nnTree, go highnnAnd I get envious when my leaves fall from the bluenAnd it don't matter no more that I ain't new to younnAnd I've been here for some yearsnAll my friends are owls and deersnAnd I forget when you were here to out away these wooden tearsnnIt's just me and the birds up herenJust me and the birds up herennAnd that day when you came with your kidsnAnd hung a tire from my limbsnWe played 'til the sun went down and you were gone againnnThe orange and the peach trees disappearednThey cut down the pines to build your homenYou left me out here all alonennAnd like you here my roots run deepnI look ugly in the summer heatnI stole the water from my own seedsnAnd went to sleepnnIt's just me and the birds up herenJust me and the birds up herennAnd it don't matter if I'm living or deadnJust so long as your family's deadnThey built a road right under my headnAnd marked me with a X of rednnIt's just me and the birds up herenJust me and the birds up herennAnd you came to watch me dienYou came to watch me dienAnd you came to watch, fall, and die