"A Thousand Trees" is the third single from the rock band Stereophonics. The song is taken from their debut album, Word Gets Around and was released in August 1997. It reached #22 on the UK Singles chart.
The catchy, anthemic opener is about a respected junior football coach who ruined his career through a lurid sexual encounter with a female student.
The title and the lyric 'It only takes one tree to make a thousand matches but only takes one match to burn a thousand trees' came from the back of a box of England's Glory matches.
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Famous quotes containing the words thousand and/or trees:
“Lucky Man,
she can’t find room
in your heart
filled with a thousand women.
She has nothing better
to do with her days,
so she makes her thin body
even thinner.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)
“The trees of the mind are black.”
—Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)