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Clearcut Disillusion

from Water Wears the Stone by TR Kelley

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lyrics

missed another payment
on my pickup truck today
it doesn't matter
they're gonna take it all away
the mill's been closed for half a year
my world is crashing around me
someone said there's no more forest

my daddy was a faller
my brother pulls green chain
and i went to work in the woods
the day i turned 18
there's been good times
and hard times and boom times
but we never thought that it could end
and now some jokers telling me
there's no more forest

they said the trees would last forever
they said my job would be secure
you can blame this on the environmentalists
looking back i'm not so sure

my wife is working at the local Circle K
my unemployment it ran out yesterday
my kids ask me "Daddy, why ?"
i don't know what to say
but in my minds eye i can still see the forest

they said the trees would last forever
they said my job would be secure
you can blame this on the preservationists
looking back i'm not so sure

all around me i see broken men and clearcut hills
shopping malls and taverns
where we try and lose our ills
the timber companies cut and ran
raped the people and the land
now they're telling me, "sorry but there's no more forest."

it wasn't the spotted owl and it wasn't the Japanese
it wasn't mechanization that finally took us to our knees
just a clear-cut case of rampant corporate greed
they couldn't see the forest for the trees

missed another payment on my house and land today.....

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from Water Wears the Stone, released January 1, 1995

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This pre-Raventones page has music from TR's 1990s acoustic years, which ran concurrently with here time in Babes With Axes (also available here on bandcamp)

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