Chop It Down
And he rides an old 45
that his daddy built back before he died
And he's got a little spot on the edge of town
under an old cottonwood all the grass matted down
He'd lay there forever with that girl on his arm
she'd promise him forever if he'd only right her wrongs
she's somebody bound to be someone
Out in Hollywood, California
Here by this river, its where he'll make his stand
with hurt in his heart and his heart in his hands.
Chop it down!
He'll build a fire from that old tree
Oh what a fire all the town could see
Him spitting out lightning, drinking from a jar
Cursing at the flames
that are tearing at his heart
She's at the ocean
and the sun's upon the waves
Thinking 'bout a boy
and lyin' in the shade.
Chop it down!
Fourteen years have just flown on by
he finally found a girl that don't ask why
Sometimes in the summer
when the rains ain't come in
He's down by the river and he's watering
one lonely tree down by the bank
She thinks she sees him cry
but she swears she hears him sing.
Chop it down!