The Willow And The Builder - A vast Emptiness lyrics

rate me

I'll grow and grow and grow and grow

Stretch my back up high

Reach my arms out wide and low

Hanging over you, my little one, you can hide here,

Be quite now, be careful now

You'll climb and climb and climb and climb

'Til you're high enough to meet my eyes

And look out at the evening lights

And see what I see, a vast emptiness, a great loneliness

And I'll say, "There's no one like you, kid"

But seasons change and children age

And don't have time for trees like me

But the moon and I get along

And the winter's not too long, right?

So I'll sleep and sleep and sleep it off

And wake when you return

Then one windy winter's eve

You came walking strong and tall

And chopped me down, limb by limb

And built a fire out of me

And in the fireplace I burned and turned

'Til I was smoke that rose up that old chimney

And I laughed and laughed

"Oh to be free!" I said

And floated up into that vast emptiness

And disappeared