Uploaded August 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Parody Violation track 3. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics (Bill Sutton):

In the time of rising mountains, in an age when life was new
The trees were the rulers of life on earth, and the world as a forest grew
But a new life found the forest, and a new life tore the land
And the dryads came to protect the wood, to stay the humans' hand

Singing, "I am the strength of the heart and the root
I am the soul of the wood."

In a time of ancient mountains, in an age no longer new
A man walked into a hardwood grove with a chainsaw and its crew
And he reached for the crippled oak tree, and he waved his crew to start
When a vision leapt from the shattered limbs and pierced him to the heart

Singing, "I am the strength of the heart and the root
I am the soul of the wood."

She was sun and moon and starlight, she was earth and sky and sea
She was everything that he'd ever loved, and all that he wished to be
And she sang of the elder forests, and she sang of the rustling wind
And her arms reached out from the jagged bark, reached out to pull him in

Singing, "I am the strength of the heart and the root
I am the soul of the wood."

But the man pulled out an acorn, and he held it to her eyes
And he sang to her of birth and life, and that even an oak must die
Then she knew that her tree had withered, and she turned, no longer strong
And she passed away while the chainsaw's roar drowned out her final song

Singing, "I am the strength of the heart and the root
I am the soul of the wood."

In the night under ancient mountains, in the night under autumn skies
A man looks down at a rotting stump, and he shakes his head and sighs
Then he kneels to plant an acorn, and he hears a quiet sound
A song of joy and a hope of spring, of new life in the ground

Singing, "I am the strength of the heart and the root
I am the soul of the wood."
Singing, "I am the strength of the heart and the root
I am the soul of the wood."