Here On Earth movie - Birches lyrics

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Song by Spoken by Leelee Sobieski and Chris Klein<br /><br>

So was I once myself a swinger of birches. <br>

And so I dream of going back to be. <br>

It's when I'm weary of considerations, <br>

And life is too much like a pathless wood <br>

Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs <br>

Broken across it, and one eye is weeping <br>

From a twig's having lashed across it open. <br>

I'd like to get away from earth awhile <br>

And then come back to it and begin over. <br>

May no fate willfully misunderstand me <br>

And half grant what I wish and snatch me away <br>

Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: <br>

I don't know where it's likely to go better. <br>

I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree, <br>

And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk <br>

Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, <br>

But dipped its top and set me down again. <br>

That would be good both going and coming back. <br>

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.<br>

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