The Dreaming Tree

Album: Before These Crowded Streets (1998)
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  • 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
    She 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 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
    Take me back
    Take me back
    Take me back
    Take me back
    Save me please Writer/s: DAVID JOHN MATTHEWS, STEFAN K. LESSARD
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