Lyrics to
A Day In The Life Of A Tree

This version of A Day In The Life Of A Tree was released by Beach Boys in 1971.

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Feel the wind burn through my skin
The pain, the air is killing me
For years my limbs stretched to the sky
A nest for birds to sit and sing

But now my branches suffer
And my leaves don’t bear the glow
They did so long ago

One day I was full of life
My sap was rich and I was strong
From seed to tree I grew so tall
Through wind and rain I could not fall

But now my branches suffer
And my leaves don’t offer
Poetry to men of song

Trees like me weren’t meant to live
If all this world can give
Pollution and slow death

Oh Lord I lay me down
No life’s left to be found
There’s nothing left for me

Trees like me weren’t meant to live
If all this earth can give
Is pollution

Trees like me weren’t meant to live
(Oh Lord I lay me down)
If all this earth can give
(My branches to the ground)
Is pollution and slow death
(There’s nothing left for me)

Oh Lord I lay me down
My branches to the ground
There’s nothing left for me

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The lyrics to A Day In The Life Of A Tree are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Beach Boys used when the song was created in 1971. The lyrics to A Day In The Life Of A Tree have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Beach Boys and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to A Day In The Life Of A Tree by Beach Boys. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to A Day In The Life Of A Tree" means the words set to the music of A Day In The Life Of A Tree, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Beach Boys. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to A Day In The Life Of A Tree and the lyrics to A Day In The Life Of A Tree are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Beach Boys who came here looking just for the lyrics to A Day In The Life Of A Tree, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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