The Dreaming Tree

[Verse 1]

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 until 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, 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 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[x4]

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

Save me please