MUsic Tree
I was born in the forest
The birds knew my name
Insects crawled my branches
And the earth fed me rain
The days would rise, the nights would fall
As the rings of time drew within me
The earth would turn as I grew tall
A dream from a single seed
Time was endless in the forest
Until the mighty storm
and in a single moment I went
crashing to the forest floor
The days went dark
The birds forgot my name
The nights, were cold and long
Until she came
Until she came
She took me to her workshop
Where wood turns into sound
She married me with steel and strings
And there my voice was found
We would sing all day
And deep into the night
As we traveled around the world
Playing songs under bright lights
The days turned into decades
Crowds would come each night
Everyone would sing our songs
As they laughed and cried
Generations side-by-side
Each day we’d write another song
Each note would rise to the rooftops
But then one day I awoke alone
And the music stopped
I lay inside her workshop
The air was filled with tears
My strings grew cold and out of tune
The songs had disappeared
And then one day a man came by
With brand new melodies
He took me back to the outside
And brought new notes to me
New songs for this old tree
So this is my story
Of a life lived long
More than branches grow from me
And so will the songs
And so will the songs
Do you hear the forest?
And so will the songs
Feel the coolness of the rain
And so will the songs
Hear the birds out call my name
And this is my song
I was born in the forest