Album: Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus (1970)

Charted: 111

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• It's nature's way of telling you something's wrong
  It's nature's way of telling you in a song
  
  It's nature's way of receiving you
  It's nature's way of retrieving you
  It's nature's way of telling you
  Something's wrong
  
  It's nature's way of telling you, soon we'll freeze
  It's nature's way of telling you, dying trees
  
  It's nature's way of receiving you
  It's nature's way of retrieving you
  It's nature's way of telling you
  Something's wrong
  It's nature's way, it's nature's way
  It's nature's way, it's nature's way
  
  It's nature's way of telling you
  It's nature's way of telling you
  Something's wrong
  It's nature's way of telling you
  It's nature's way of telling you
  In a song, oh-h
  
  It's nature's way of receiving you
  It's nature's way
  It's nature's way of retrieving you
  It's nature's way
  It's nature's way of telling you
  Something's wrong, something's wrong, something's wrong Writer/s: Randy California
  Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Comments: 15

• Lani from HawaiiI knew Randy California (Wolfe) personally,as well as his 2 sisters and his mother.
  They moved to my hometown of Maunaloa,Molokaiin the mid 1970’s.
  His sisters heard me singing my songs in my yard when they were walking around our closely knit community.Randy lived my songs and recorded a few. I was 15 at that time.
  He said I my songs were like the Beatles…He even wrote one for me that I have in my song journal… it’s beautiful and it’s titled “Living in this world”.
  He came back to Molokai to keep his promise to me… that he would return when I was 25 and we would resume our friendship.
  Randy was a true gentleman with me and it was our music that sealed our spiritual bond.
  I have wonderful stories about those years on Molokai.
• David Sackman from Los Angeles, CaThe year this song came out - 1970 - was also the year of the first Earth Day celebration. I don't know if he wrote the song before or after Earth Day, but the movement was already in the air. Now, it should be the anthem for Earth Day. "It's nature's way of telling you in a song."
• Tom from PennsylvaniaIt’s about smoking…. A cough is natures way of telling you something is wrong. Listen to the ending on the album…..he is coughing in the background.
• Beechwood Cemetery from OntarioAre you serious? It has f--k all to do with global warming or cooling, the song is a riff on the feelings and beneficent and not so beneficent effects of marijuana, a drug popular at the time. Its nature's way. Stop trying to stuff political angles into simple beauty and warnings
• Witness from Dicville UsaRandy died drowned while saving his 12 year old son from drowning.
  And "the band" didn't turn down Woodstock. their manager wouldn't let them because they were on tour promoting their latest album.
• Phil from TorontoRobert is correct. "It's in the breeze" is what he's singing. I used to think it was "summer breeze". "Soon we'll freeze" was a new one for me, but in all live versions, it's very clear. Sadly it's not so clear on the album. Definitely not an f sound, definitely a b. Anyway, all the discussion about warming vs cooling wrt this song is irrelevant as neither is mentioned in this song.
• Kirk from Tampa, Fl.It's not soon we'll freeze, it's summer breeze!
• Robert From Washington from SeattleTruly a great, great song by a seriously underappreciated band, but in the second verse the lyric is *it's in the breeze*, NOT *soon we'll freeze*. It's wrong here and nearly everywhere else and should be fixed! Sorry, but it bugs me and Randy deserves better.
• Rick from Boulder CreekI first heard Nature's Way in Santa Cruz, CA on the beach through someone's radio. I love the chord progression. I've committed it to memory. However, I cannot understand why the lyrics are so thin, so very sparse. I just feel there has to be more to say. Or is it that the magic lies in the unsaid?
• Ricky Singer from Long BeachLove this whole Album since the day it came out. Still in my top 10
• Michael C from New Mexico Tr4head from Wnc: Beefy Boy from Memphis is right. In the early 1960s we were taught about the effects of the human production of carbon dioxide and the “greenhouse effect” as it was referred to then. Often when a system is disturbed, increased variability (including uncharacteristic cold periods) is evidenced even before the eventual trend (warning, as we now know) can be determined. That said, the song speaks clearly and prophetically of earth being out of balance.
• Rex from FloridaSaw Spirit open up for Cream in Anaheim, California and was blown away....became an instant fan. Use to go see them when they played at the Golden Bear in Huntington Beach, California. Years later while living in Orlando, Spirit put on a free outdoor concert (Randy California and Ed Cassidy were the only original members). After they finished I had had a chance to talk to Randy and talk about the early shows that I had seen them. A few months later I learned about his drowning. He wrote and played some great tunes. Still a Spirit fan today.
• Beefy Boy from Memphis Tr4head, climate change is the result of warming, but the effect on earth is sometimes, depending on time and place, cooling. Climate is a science, and we non-climatologists depend on experts in the field to tell us their findings, just as we depend on a doctor’s opinion about a body ailment. Scientists in the field say, overwhelmingly and unequivocally, that man-made climate change is a fact. Some scientists did believe the earth was cooling decades ago, but the models were incomplete. Some, though, thought the earth was warming, and this was and is correct. Randy C. was taking a stab at it with his pretty song, and he might well have used the word “freeze” because it rhymes with rhymes with “trees.” Were he here today, I’m pretty sure he’d not be a warming denier (I.e., Fox News idiot).
• Tr4head from WncGood take, but I would correct on the "climate" issue. Back then we were concerned about COOLING, not WARMING, as the lyrics clearly show. So, this should tell all of us that mans views on climate has always been suspect and not incontrovertable facts.
• Denise from SantafeDecades later this song still resonates on so many levels. It’s almost a blessing that the writer isn’t here to see what a mess this planet is. Nature’s Way illustrates the best of Spirit in this song about facing mortality and the dangers of man to the environment.

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