Hey farmer, farmer / Put away that DDT now / Give me spots on my apples / But leave me the birds and the bees / Please!

Don't it always seem to go / That you don't know what you've got / Till it's gone / They paved paradise / And put up a parking lot

They took all the trees / Put 'em in a tree museum / And they charged the people / A dollar and a half just to see 'em

I can't decide / I'm so confused / Which way to go? Ooh / I'm being useful here / I'm being used / Which way to go? / Some line gets drawn

Even an eagle has to fall sometimes / Climbing against the wind / Even a strong heart has to break / And learn to love and heal again

Eyes that send me chasing after feelings that I lost one day / Why befriend me when the brandy tells me what they want to say? / Playing big protector is a grand disguise / 'Til you contradict yourself with brandy eyes / No beginning / Still no end to let me shrug and walk away / Silly grinning, teasing talk that promises a kiss some day / I would put you out of mind if I were wise / But wisdom has no power over brandy eyes.

It's comin' on Christmas / They're cutting down trees / They're putting up reindeer and singing songs of joy and peace / Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on.

And the seasons they go round and round, / And the painted ponies go up and down, / We're captive on the carousel of time / We can't return, we can only look behind / From where we came / And go round and round and round / In the circle game.

Yesterday a child came out to wonder, caught a dragonfly inside a jar. Fearful when the sky was full of thunder and tearful at the falling of a star.

Tonight we pray for water / Cool water / And way up there / If you care / Please show us where / There's good water / Cool clear water.