Cutting Down Trees (Untitled)
(November 11, 2002)

Everyday they're cutting down trees
but you can be a rock star
if you please

It's not cool to say something about something
just look pretty and distant with your Maybelline
it's a dark day today in American politic
Republicans took it all

But my lipstick, lipstick
is doing me wrong
the beauty myth is singing my song

Put things in perspective
Broaden out
And don't you come cryin'
when your world sucks

Takin' it easy, takin' it slow
Sit on your ass while the fat cats grow

Everything changes round
here you say
but are those changes you'd choose
at the end of the day?

I took a walk in the wildest canyon
you used to see trees
stretched out till the bay,
now it's cars, houses, asphalt,
vast and grey

There used to be a view out to the bay
now bulldozers plowing that view away
Is this what we want, is this what we need?
is anyone still connected, tell me please?