A Thousand Trees - Decade In The Sun Version - Stereophonics

Standing at the bus stop

With my shopping in my hands

When I'm overhearing elderly ladies

As the rumours start to fly

Hear them in the school yard

In the scrap yard, in the chip shop

In the phone box, in the pool hall

At the shoe stall, every corner turned around

It started with a school girl who was running

Running home to her mam and dad

Told them she was playing

In the change room of her local football side

They said tell us again, she told them again

They said tell us the truth, they find it hard to believe

Cause he taught our Steve, he even trained me

Taught Uncle John, who's a father of three

It only takes one tree

To make a thousand matches

Only takes one match

To burn a thousand trees

You see him in the class room, in the swimming pool

Where the match stick men are made

At the Scout's hall, at the football

Where the wise we trust are paid

They all honour his name, he did a lot for the game

He got his name knocked up above the sports ground gates

Now they're ripping them down, stamping the ground

Picture gathers dust in the bar

It only takes one tree

To make a thousand matches

Only takes one match

To burn a thousand trees

Wake up and smell the rain

Shake up, he's back to stay

He hasn't been on a holiday

Growing seeds don't believe

Why he's been away, in the school yard

Change room, playing fields

Bathroom, phone box

Office blocks, corners turned around

They keep doubting the flame, tossing the blame

Got his name knocked up above the sports ground gates

Now they're ripping them down, stamping the ground

Pictures gathers dust in the bar in the lounge

It only takes one tree

To make a thousand matches

Only takes one match

To burn a thousand trees