Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

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

No swollen, distorted, unrecognisable; like our love

The smell of leaf mould 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 won't bring you back to me

 Oh no I might as well

I might as well just go tell it to the trees

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 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