Name: The Oak
Duration: P00H02M54S
Description: Trees were here before us, and will be here long after we’ve gone

The Oak

from Time In The Trees by Serious Child

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Trees were here before us, and will be here long after we’ve gone

lyrics

When I was younger, I bent with the wind
A tender, green sapling, unsure
Of the air, of my roots, of the soil I was in
Too shallow to be secure

Now I am older, my branches spread broad
My trunk holds two hundred rings
My bark bears the scars of arrows and hearts
My leaves hide the birds as they sing

CHORUS
I’ve lasted two hundred cold winters
As others they grow and they fall
No-one has lasted to listen
To the stories that I have to tell

Now I stand lonely, my friends are the stones
The rivers, the mountains, the sea
The chalk, the clay, the flint and the bones
Those who are still here with me

CHORUS

My roots running deeper, I’ll weather the storms
The sun will return by and by
I’ll splinter with lightning when it is my time
A hundred years more till I die

CHORUS

credits

from Time In The Trees, released March 20, 2020
Words by Alan Young, Jamie MacRae, Carla March
Music by Alan Young

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Serious Child England, UK

Roots songwriter from the West Sussex woods

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