There Is A Tree

Last night I dreamed you very near

Though the night was dark beyond the glass

I knew you'd left before I woke

But you'd fogged the window when you passed



The air was still and smelled like rain,

Though I'd never known so dry a spell

And what I heard there in the dark,

Are the secrets I will never tell?



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There is a tree beyond the world

In it's ancient roots a song is curled

I'm the fool whose life's been spent

Between what's said and what is meant



I didn't mean what went so wrong

Some things I wish I didn't know

I've always lived inside my head

And often utterly alone



I will be a pillow for your head

You can make me promises you can't keep

And I'll believe each word you've said

And hum to you while you sleep



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You took me by my shaking hand,

Laughed at me and closed the door,

Put your hands to my waist,

And waltzed rue round the kitchen floor



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So I will wander without fail

In circles that grow ever wide

The sky expands and then exhales

With an ache that never subsides



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