Tree of Rhyme

Lyrics

[Verse 1] I took a tree into the town To see if it would grow Not knowing I was affixed To the fate of the seed I'd sown My roots are solid underground Fed by the warm spring rain Where thunder's fierce and fickle winds Find compromise insane [Chorus] I seek refuge in this tree of rhyme Into its arms I climb Frightened by the terror of the scythe There will be peace with the wind and rain The roundness of the earth and flame This tree is more constant than I This tree is more constant than I [Verse 2] My tree has flourished the same as I Though invisiblе at times Beneath thе rubble of vacant eyes The seed divides and climbs As if a part of a forgotten age When business was a vice And virtue was merely picking fruit In some patient paradise [Chorus] I seek refuge in this tree of rhyme Into its arms I climb Frightened by the terror of the scythe There will be peace with the wind and rain The roundness of the earth and flame This tree is more constant than I This tree is more constant than I [Verse 3] I pity those without a tree As birth has doomed no one For bricks are merely mud and straw Canals are just rivers won For nature schemes in cracks and seams Waiting for a time to bloom Even down in that soot gray town In some forgotten room [Chorus] I seek refuge in this tree of rhyme Into its arms I climb Frightened by the terror of the scythe There will be peace with the wind and rain The roundness of the earth and flame This tree is more constant than I This tree is more constant than I