DAVE MATTHEWS BAND - The 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>You1ll 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