text: Before we built that smirking airport
  Before the phones told us where to go
  Before the strike, before the streetcar
  Before we read comics on the radio
  Long before we found a way to gauge the coldest day
  Before the flood, before the treaty
  Before we broke a promise to appear
  Before we drew the new team logo
  Before the taste of Malathion lingered here
  Way before we skated down the Eaton Place parkade
  Before we built that
  Before the fire
  You were lifted by a blue jay beating wings above a sea
  With a wave of grazing bison, tall grass prairie
  You were set in sandy soil and stand a mighty oak
  Stand a mighty oak