For aeons they remained in their rightful realm Sleeping giants, standing composed Until the day the nightmare came And tried to devour their souls Punished with the absence of a voice with the inability to cry The trees were forced to unfurl their secret They unfurled their wings Expelled from their homeland Leaving signs of their reign behind Hungry shades roaming the place Where wooden pillars once stood Scavengers devouring the remains Of what earth once shaped They flew high towards the clouds Frightened of looking back again The beginning of an odyssey On august wings They escaped into the night Darkness swallowed their presence And time denies their lifes And now there is the legend Of the day the trees began to fly But the truth has always been spoken By the things they left behind