The Canopy Songtext
von Exchecker

He approached the woods with a certain caution
Afraid to take up on his best friend′s offering
A night in the woods, lot of girls lot of beers
But when they held hands the woods disappeared his fears
And the woods gained colour
A colour which remained in his gaze till the day they split ways
One mark on the woods, a spark in the flood
They left to remember their time together
Before they severed, a seedling dropped on the spot they held hands
And the spot where it landed was the place he'd take his next exes
A recreation to take himself
Out of the dark, into the light
Reaching out for help teaching himself how to thrive
In a world which don′t care if you go it alone or live in your phone he moved on

And he grew
Grew from happiness to happiness
From person to person
Into the light


That seedling dropped in the right position
A position sufficient for the conditions of life
And through the course of the years of his social life
The tree grew around the rest like a twister slide
Making a unique course to the sunlight hidden behind
He left the tree untended
And the hardest winters let darkness descend, the tree plunged to black
And nature's mother attacked, the tree had to react
Branches grew across to the canopy top
Clutching sunlight while the bottom branches dropped height
Redundant but not lost, abundant and frost topped, survival was not lost
And the tree grew more despite the branches before
Reaching beyond it's trunk for a healthy existence
Through persistence that tree grew tall, that tree grew tall, that tree grew tall

And what was that tiny seedling
Became a big woody motherfucker
Don′t fuck with trees
They′ll always outgrow you

Humans and trees exist off each other
Exchange gases day to day but we're exactly the same
Individuals figuring out how to twist and turn, live and learn around groups
And still find a path to enlightenment, there′s strife in it but we gotta pay the price
Life is ripe with dark times designed to push us to the light
While trees use branches to find light and grow
Humans form relationships to avoid fight and find a reason to go on when shit gets tough
When shit gets toughest we're devoid of luck and we reach out
Branch after branch we find nothing but rejection
Nature kicks in and we find a way

We always find a way
Time passes but the world′s always the same
Waves hitting the same sands over and over
Winters hitting the same trees over and over
Reach above the fucking canopy