Heartwood

Lyrics

[Verse 1] "I always thought you were made of trees," He said to me To be so seen Is a green kind of sadness It feels so new Tiny shoot, proof of life Does that mean I was invisible before? [Chorus] Okay, but let me be oak My branches curved back down to earth The reaching and bowing a perpetual arc Rainbow on the horizon I embrace in all directions I live one hundred years I remember everything In the langauge of my heartwood [Verse 2] And when I dream it's not of trees But of placing quartz In thе cold end of the stream Whеre the moonlight catches the crystal flakes Showing the fish where to go A checkerboard of crooked arrows Pointing you back again and again To a numb and nameless Deep