A thousand years i've stood here I'll stand a thousand more Seen kingdoms rise and fall Seen pestilence and war How swift are your little lives How swiftly you forget My roots are deep in your forefathers's bones My head in the air that you breath When you freeze i submit your fire When you're hot come and seek shadow beneath Tree - tall as a mountain Older than fathers of kings of men Stood here and watched while your heroes died I am your memory... I am incarnate life My branches you cradle I watched the rise of man While you wished upon the stars I never left the land And you've hung villians from my arms Nailed prophets high on my chest In your mind you may be the master But in the soil we both shall rest Tree - Yoo've convinced yourselves you were cast out of Eden But you left willingly in pride Now when you freeze in your castles of stone Do you think you were right Tree - How fragile are your lives How fragile your dreams And you shall ache with thirst In eroded landscapes( there's no escape) Last species alone... In a field of stone But listen mankind... What i tell is true From a buried seed a forest will be You may destroy But you cannot undo