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đ¤ Lyrics: “The Lost Hedgerows”
[Verse 1]
Once the fields were small and winding
Bound by green where birds would hide
Hawthorn, blackthorn, ivy binding
Lines the old maps still describe
But steel and plough made wide the land
And rows were felled by farmer’s hand
[Chorus]
The lost hedgerows, gone but not forgotten
Roots pulled up and silence in their place
But plant again, and time may still soften
The hard straight lines we've etched on this space
[Verse 2]
Some made way for homes and driveways
Some for tractors' wider turns
Fox and thrush gave up their byways
Empty gaps where life once burned
A price was paid in chirp and hum
For fields made twice the size they’d come
[Chorus]
The lost hedgerows, gone but not forgotten
Ghosts in lines the buzzards fly above
But plant again, and let the green blossom
A living fence, a corridor of love
[Bridge]
Stone to stone, we mark the line
Lay the roots and take our time
Sloe and spindle, dogrose climb
The songbirds know, the land will rhyme
[Verse 3]
Now the maps may still remember
What the earth once used to show
And if we act this mild September
Next spring the sap may start to flow
In hedge and haw, let hope be sown
For what was lost might still be grown
[Final Chorus]
The lost hedgerows, gone but not forever
Hands can heal what axes tore away
So plant again—restore the tether
That bound the land in greener days