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He plucks the last leaves from her branches

  • 12-11-2009 1:48am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15


    A song I wrote for my girlfriend to sing :D

    The branches are bare this time of year;
    Naked to the winter’s paw
    Trees soon to be clothed again
    In numbing drifts of snow

    But one tree in the depths of others
    Has its leaves still to fall
    It’s me there wrapped in greenery
    And drinking in the sun.

    The leaves are falling
    The wind is calling
    The leaves are falling
    The wind is calling me.

    But you have come to pick me apart
    Leaf by leaf by leaf.
    You cut them from me one by one
    Samson betrayed in sleep.

    Till there’s nothing left but a silhouette
    In the shadows of a fading sunset
    Body stripped down
    By the storm of your hands
    To black and dark and brown.

    I know for a fact that you keep them
    In a box to this day.
    They curl tight into themselves,
    Fingered by decay.

    Creep skeletons over their skin
    Longing for motherland trees
    Their veins lie empty and open
    Sighing for the sign of a breeze.

    The leaves are falling
    The wind is calling
    The leaves are falling
    The wind is calling me.

    And now I’m just a silhouette
    In the shadows of a fading sunset
    Body stripped down
    By the storm of your hands
    To black and dark and brown.


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