By The People; For The People movie - Dreaming Tree lyrics

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Standing here<br>

The old man said to me<br>

"Long before these crowded streets<br>

Here stood my dreaming tree"<br>

Below it he would sit<br>

For hours at a time<br>

Now progress takes away<br>

What forever took to find<br>

Now he's falling hard<br>

He feels the falling dark<br>

How he longs to be<br>

Beneath his dreaming tree<br>

Conquered fear to climb<br>

A moment froze in time<br>

When the girl who first he kissed<br>

Promised him she'd be his<br>

Remembered mother's words<br>

There beneath the tree<br>

"No matter what the world<br>

You'll always be my baby"<br>

Mommy come quick<br>

The dreaming tree has died<br>

The air is growing thick<br>

A fear he cannot hide<br>

The dreaming tree has died<br>

Oh have you no pity<br>

This thing I do<br>

I do not deny it<br>

All through this smile<br>

As crooked as danger<br>

I do not deny<br>

I know in my mind<br>

I would leave you now<br>

If I had the strength to<br>

I would leave you up<br>

To your own devices<br>

Will you not talk<br>

Can you take pity<br>

I don't ask much<br>

But won't you speak<br>

Please<br>

From the start<br>

She knew she had it made<br>

Easy up 'til then<br>

For sure she'd make the grade<br>

Adorers came in hordes<br>

To lay down in her wake<br>

She gave it all she had<br>

But treasures slowly fade<br>

Now she's falling hard<br>

She feels the fall of dark<br>

How did this fall apart<br>

She drinks to fill it up<br>

A smile of sweetest flowers<br>

Wilted so and soured<br>

Black tears stain the cheeks<br>

That once were so admired<br>

She thinks when she was small<br>

There on her father's knee<br>

How he had promised her<br>

"You'll always be my baby"<br>

"Daddy come quick<br>

The dreaming tree has died<br>

I can't find my way home<br>

There is no place to hide<br>

The dreaming tree has died"<br>

Oh if I had the strength...<br>

Take me back<br>

Save me please<br>

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