The Dreaming Tree

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



And 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

Gave it all she had but treasures slowly faded



Now she's falling hard 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 her father's knees

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"



Shake, shake, shake, shake



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?



[Incomprehensible] much time



Take me back, take me back, take me back

Take me back, take me back, take me back

Take me back, save me please, take me back