The Dreaming Tree Lyrics

The Dreaming Tree lyrics

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 fade



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 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 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?







Take me back, take me back, take me back...







Save me please.