Cherry Tree Lyrics

Cherry Tree

[ Robert Buck/Natalie Merchant ]

Over your shoulder, please don`t mind me 
if my eyes have fallen onto your magazine 
for I`ve been watching and wondering 
why your face is changing with every line you read. 

All those lines and circles, to me, a mystery. 
Eve pull down the apple and give taste to me. 
If she would be wonderful, but my pride is in the way. 
I cannot read to save my life, I`m so ashamed to say. 

I live in silence, afraid to speak 
of my life of darkness because I cannot read. 

For all those lines and circles, to me, a mystery. 
Eve pull down the apple and give taste to me. 
If she could it would be wonderful. 
Then I wouldn`t need someone else`s eyes to see what`s in front of me. 
No one guiding me. 

It makes me humble to be so green 
at what every kid can do when he learns A to Z, 

but all those lines and circles just frighten me 
and I fear that I`ll be trampled if you don`t reach for me. 
Before I run I`ll have to take a fall. 
And then pick myself up, so slowly I`ll devour every one of those books in the
Tower of Knowledge.