The Dreaming Tree — текст песни (Dave Matws Band)

(Matthews/Lessard)



Standing here

The old man said to me

Long before these crowded streets

Here stood my dreaming tree

Below it he would sit

For hours at a time

Now progress takes away

What forever took to find

Now he`s falling hard

He feels the falling dark

How he longs to be

Beneath his dreaming tree

Conquered fear to climb

A moment froze in time

When the girl who first he kissed

Promised him she`d be his

Remembered mother`s words

There beneath the tree

No matter what the world

You`ll always be my baby

Mommy come quick

The dreaming tree has died

The air is growing thick

A fear he cannot hide

The dreaming tree has died



Oh have you no pity

This thing I do

I do not deny it

All through this smile

As crooked as danger

I do not deny

I know in my mind

I would leave you now

If I had the strength to

I would leave you up

To your own devices

Will you not talk

Can you take pity

I don`t ask much

But won`t you speak

Please



From the start

She knew she had it made

Easy up `til then

For sure she`d make the grade

Adorers came in hordes

To lay down in her wake

She gave it all she had

But treasures surely fade

Now she`s falling hard

She feels the fall of dark

How did this fall apart

She drinks to fill it up

A smile of sweetest flowers

Wilted so and soured

Black tears stain the cheeks

That once were so admired

She thinks when she was small

There on he father`s knee

How he had promised her

You`ll always be my baby

Daddy come quick

The dreaming tree has died

I can`t find my way home

There is no place to hide

The dreaming tree has died



Oh if I had the strength...



Take me back

Save me please