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/suggestions, let me know! I wrote a new song recently. I wrote it... and I just kinda taught it to the guys... today... at soundcheck... they really appreciate that. Put them in front of all these people. But no, they're really courageous and cool and uh, why not, right? But the inspiration for this song was... I've been really inspired by this girl, I don't know if you've ever heard of her, her name is Julia "Butterfly" Hill, and her nickname is Butterfly. And in the late '90s she proteced a redwood tree up in San Francisco, a thousand year old tree that a lumber company was trying to cut them all down. And she did what they call a tree sit. She got up in there and she lived there for two years -- through El Nino, through horrible storms, through blizzards, she built this wooden-canopy-treehouse-kinda-thing up there, and people would try and send her up necessities -- food, toilet paper and everything, and it was crazy. You can kinda start the thing... So if you can try and imagine us in the middle of the Redwood forest and these amazing trees that have been around forever and ever and ever, and the lumber company would actually have helicopters fly through, trying to blow her out of there. Through her incredible determination and courage she managed to stay up there until they signed a deal to protect all of the trees in this park. So I was just taken by her, obviously, and just about the world sort of that we're living in today, we're trying so hard not to combat our selfishness and our greedy ways... so easily we can suck the life out of our beautiful Earth. It's in our nature to deceive It's in our nature to destroy It's in our nature to move on and on Until everything is gone It's in our nature to survive It's in our nature to revive It's in our nature if we could See what's right and what is good Butterfly, butterfly You hold her in your hand til she says goodbye She's the rain on your tongue And the tear in your eye She blesses the ground And she touches the sky Butterfly butterfly It's in our nature to resent It's in our nature to divide It's in our nature to want more and more and more Not knowing what we want it for It's in our nature to be true It's in our nature to rejoice It's in our nature to be brave (???) Become one with what we save Butterfly, butterfly You hold her in your hand til she says goodbye She's the rain on your tongue And the tear in your eye She blesses the ground And she touches the sky Butterfly butterfly Her silent prayer it echoes out Above her soul, upon a cloud No matter what, keep holding on The work of an angel is never done It's never done It's never done It's never done It's never done Butterfly, butterfly You hold her in your hand til she says goodbye She's the rain on your tongue And the tear in your eye She blesses the ground And she touches the sky Butterfly butterfly Butterfly, butterfly Butterfly, butterfly You hold her in your hand til she says goodbye She's the rain on your tongue And the tear in your eye She blesses the ground And she touches the sky Butterfly butterfly You hold her in your hand til she says goodbye She's the rain on your tongue And the tear in your eye She blesses the ground And she touches the sky Butterfly butterfly Butterfly butterfly It's in our nature to destroy It's in our nature to deceive