"Wondering Why?" genre: Folk
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	First song I wrote, about what happened to the woods that once thrived in my backyard in Merrick, L.I., N.Y. 1711 Saint Marks Place. There's a community college there now, or at least the last time I visted many years ago.
	Credits: L A Hazard : Words and Music
	Story Behind the Song Once upon a time, not so long ago, regardless of the fact that I now qualify for membership in the AARP, there lived, what to a young boy of 5 seemed to be, a most wonderous forest behind his home. Rabbits, squirrels, and trees that spoke to him when no adult was around were his companions, his teachers, if you will. Even though he never told anyone about his "lessons" there, these teachers were annihilated so that a "real" school of learning could be built. One that would prove you had learned something important by giving you a piece of paper that said so! The rabbits, the squirrels and the trees may now be gone, their voices silenced by those who fear such "insanity", such wisdom, but they are not forgotten. Still....... "Perhaps extinction really is forever, and when at long last we do awaken from our nightmare of plutonium, rape, genocide, and coercion, we will find ourselves finally facing the world we have created. Perhaps we will awaken in an exterior landscape that is barren and lonely enough to match the landscape of our hearts and minds. Perhaps we'll awaken to find that at least one tenet of Christianity is literally true - that hell does in fact exist, and that we are in it." Derrick Jensen - A Language Older Than Words - Context Books - 2000 Lyrics Well they tore down the trees and they dried up the streams and they made all the animals die They built a school of learning where a school of learning lived and their wondering why I cry!

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