Story Behind The Song

Florida State sponsored environmental project with song and music video aimed for use in environmental education.

Song Description

A kickin' little acoustic folk-rock song that personifies trees and details the symbiotic relationship between man and tree.

Lyrics

The Magic Tree

1st verse
You breathe out - I breathe in,
Where you end - I begin;
There?s so much that I need from you
You give free what I take from you.

So many secrets that you know,
Watching decades come and go,
So grand and wise, the world must see
That you are a... magic tree.

2nd verse
All the mysteries that you hide,
Healing gifts from deep inside,
All these things you gladly share
Do we wonder, do we care?

You are shelter from the storm,
Shade to cool and fuel to warm,
You are magic, I know now,
In every inch of every bough.

Bridge
Now the time has come to help you make a stand
You have stood beside us all along
A champion of life - whose life we must demand
It?s time to spread the magic... before the magic?s gone...

Instrumental

You breathe out - I breathe in,
Where you end - I begin,
Should I the ?last leaf? live to be,
I will bless the 'poem,' the poem that?s a tree.


Dedicated to all of those who, like trees, live a long life and enrich the lives of many along the way.

With inspiration by poems,?Trees,? by Joyce Kilmer,
and ?The Last Leaf,? by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Words & Music by Cindy Hite, © 2001