*you can download a demo recording of this song here
Lay me down in fields of green
The summer sun, it tastes as sweet as you
Fruits and flowers surround our dream
Our wish for native beauty has come true
Grounded now I heard you spoke
Your burrowed seeds, your barren throat
Godforsaken tears, they choke from you
Our undergrowth is drying up
And I’ve had enough of this
Photosynthetic mindfuck
Burn it down, the branches wasting
Ashen ground incineration
Leaves of brown reciprocating
Resin from our hearts
Wrath of life reduced to stumps
A hand for hand, a trunk for trunk
It’s killing me, this tree that took my love
Developmental antidote
Emerges from a heartfelt note to you
A final chance to cast my vote
Of grafting and of germinating too
I’ll rub the stem, create the spark
You skin my name, I’ll ring your bark
Seeds the girdling end of fertile hope
Burn it down, the branches wasting
Ashen ground of expiration
Leaves of brown reciprocating
Resin from our hearts
The rising flame my only hope
A sacrificial fire of growth
It’s killing me, this tree that took my love
The tree that took my love
The tree that took my love
The tree that took my love…
Clotted cells my heart will pump
Heavy swell, my sap will clump
If the canopy is free I’m jumping down
Burn it down, the branches wasting
Ashen ground incineration
Leaves of brown reciprocating
Resin from our hearts
Wrath of life reduced to stumps
A hand for hand, a trunk for trunk
It’s killing me, this tree that took my love
The tree that took my love
The tree that took my love
The tree that took my love…
 …wrath of life reduced to stumps… |
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 …a hand for hand, a trunk for trunk… |
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 …it’s killing me… |
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 …THIS TREE THAT TOOK MY LOVE… |
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© 2008 Daniel Schaumann