I went to the country to escape the noise and lightsnAnd I laid there in the pine cones all nightnI woke in the morning when all the trees were gonenI got this sinking feeling, everything felt wrongnStrip malls and dollar stores and diesel in the airnI slept in a rowboatnAnd I anchored far from shorenNow I don't hear them chain saws no morenI woke in the morningnWhen someone pulled the plugnI was stranded in the lake bottom sludgenWith all the tires, paint cans and thingsnnEvery little critter, feather, fur and finnCried to mother nature to come back for themnFor every piece of litter, for every little sinnShe cried for all of them, feather, fur and finnnI went to an island down the Caribbean waynAnd I laid there in the sand all daynI turned on a radio and I heard the DJ saynBaton down the hatches down Santa Elena waynI swam the ocean reef but the coral all was greynnEvery little critter, feather, fur and finnCried for mother nature to come back for themnFor every piece of litter, for every little sinnShe cried for all of them, feather, fur and finnnShe saw the eagle's eye weeping in the willownShe prayed to the mantis and she cried into her pillownFor the salmon in the Fraser and the salamander's kinnShe cried for all of them, feather, fur and finnnI went to the city when all the trees were gonenAnd I lay there on her asphalt lawnnShe cried out a thousand days of hurricanes and floodsnHer face ran with tears, and the streets ran with bloodnFur coats and sushi boats and diesel in the airnnEvery little critter, feather, fur and finnCried for mother nature to come back for themnFor every piece of litter, for every little sinnShe cried for all of them, feather, fur and finnFeather, fur and fin, she cried for all of themnShe cried for every fin