The Dreaming Tree

The Dreaming Tree


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

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
Take me back
Save me please


Dave Matthews