In this song I do lament, I lament over you
For you where once the many but now you are the few
Your tops will never, your tops will never scrape the blue
Your glory gone just like an old man’s faded tattoo
Chorus
Where has the kauri forest gone?
Oh the mighty have fallen? (repeat)

The saw is like a sword and many are the slain
The trees were on the ground and over them stood Cain
Over them we stood as if from G-d we had been ordained
We took the wood and bled the amber from the vein
Chorus

Our crimes could be written, written on a list
For we were once the mad, the maddest landscapist

No-one wanted to, no-one wanted to, to resist the defilement of such a beautiful virgin forest
Chorus

The time cannot heal, neither can it mend
Our forest it is now so sadly orphaned
No birds will rest, rest in their branches, singing the morning chorus
For we did sell, yes sell their greatness like a Judas
Chorus