| A Thousand Trees | |
| Cover: | A Thousand Trees.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Stereophonics |
| Album: | Word Gets Around |
| B-Side: | Carrot Cake & Wine |
| Released: | [1] |
| Length: | 3:02 |
| Label: | V2 |
| Prev Title: | More Life in a Tramps Vest |
| Prev Year: | 1997 |
| Next Title: | Traffic |
| Next Year: | 1997 |
"A Thousand Trees" is the third single released by Welsh rock band Stereophonics. The song is taken from their debut album, Word Gets Around (1997), and was released on 11 August 1997. It reached number 22 on the UK Singles Chart.
According to Kelly Jones, the song is about "a football coach who did some very untowards stuff with younger kids" and whose reputation was subsequently "basically burned to the ground". Reflecting on "A Thousand Trees" in an interview with NME in 2017, Jones said: "It was a very weird incident, when I look back at it now as a 43-year-old man, to put it into a song – if you want the truth. It’s obviously very personal to a lot of people. But it was basically about rumours in a very small environment crushing someone’s reputation".[2]
All music was composed by Kelly Jones, Richard Jones and Stuart Cable. All lyrics were written by Kelly Jones except where indicated.
CD 1
CD 2 - Acoustic EP
7-inch vinyl