[Intro] If a tree falls in the forest And nobody's there to hear it What the fuck are you talking about? [Verse 1] Trees been falling all around us every day Old wood cracking, whole sky bending out of shape Acting like the silence means it all just disappears Like the ground ain't shaking under everybody here I can hear the warning in the weight before it breaks In the birds gone missing, in the fire line ofakes In the creek running shallow, in the heat staying late In the look on your face when you know but you wait [Pre-Chorus] No witness don't mean nothing happened No headline don't mean nothing's wrong You can call it quiet if it helps you sleep But the forest been screaming all along [Chorus] There is a cacophony of trees falling down Heavy in the dark, hitting hard all around Don't ask me if it makes a sound, it makes a sound It makes a sound What the fuck are you even talking about? There is a cacophony of trees falling down Every branch, every trunk, every split in the ground Don't ask me if it makes a sound, it makes a sound It makes a sound You just were not listening now [Verse 2] Maybe that's the trick, act confused and call it deep Turn a real collapse into a question neat and clean Meanwhile roots getting ripped from the dirt like old teeth Meanwhile kids learning how to read the smoke in the breeze This ain't one tree in some story told to sound profound This is acres going over, this is thunder at the crown This is what denial sounds like when it says calm down Whole damn woods coming apart and you asking who's around [Bridge] I heard it in the floorboards I heard it in the wind I heard it in the silence You kept calling wisdom No, no, no That was never emptiness That was impact That was warning That was all of it [Chorus] There is a cacophony of trees falling down Heavy in the dark, hitting hard all around Don't ask me if it makes a sound, it makes a sound It makes a sound What the fuck are you even talking about? There is a cacophony of trees falling down Every branch, every trunk, every split in the ground Don't ask me if it makes a sound, it makes a sound It makes a sound You just were not listening now [Outro] Sample the piano, let it ring, let it bruise Dust on the drums, give the anger some room Forest full of crash, and we loop that truth It was never about sound It was always about you
