The Onceler -

Do you remember the Once-ler?

Who saw the world as his to take

And said «I really only fracture,

the rules that we made to break!»

Never really seemed to notice

The things we find appaling

Smiling as the final

Truffula was falling, falling, falling

Leave the world to heal tomorrow

Knowing we can always

Run to higher ground

Same day, different story

When we pay the now we borrow

Falling, falling, falling

And there’s no one left around

Do you remember the Once-ler?

Finally drove the world away

Turning all the things we live for

Turned the sky from blue to gray

Never really seemed to notice

The things we find appaling

Smiling as the final

Truffula was falling, falling, falling

Leave the world to heal tomorrow

Knowing we can always

Run to higher ground

Same day, different story

When we pay the now we borrow

Falling, falling, falling

And there’s no one left around

Falling down

We’re falling

And we live in what we believe

We fall in line

Thank God he held on to a seed

Do you remember the Once-ler?

Who saw the world that he designed

Looking from an empty factory

The nothing that he left behind

Finally, he seemed to notice

Things we found appaling

Crying as the final

Truffula was falling, falling, falling

Leave the world to heal tomorrow

Knowing we can always

Run to higher ground

Same day, different story

When we pay the now we borrow

Falling, falling, falling

And there’s no one left around

Falling, falling, falling

'Til there’s no one left around!

(Falling…)