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The Oak - Single

from Time In The Trees by Serious Child

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The story of a lone oak who outlives the forest, featuring John McCusker on violin and whistles.

This song is on general release, i.e. Spotify and what have you, on 28 February 2020

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

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

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

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

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
No-one has lasted to listen to me
To the stories that I have to tell

credits

from Time In The Trees, track released January 28, 2020
Alan sings and doesn't play a guitar
Carla also sings
Boo plays dulcitone and harmonium
Chris plays finger drums that sound like a bodhran
John P plays double bass
John McC adds celtic magic

Produced by Boo Hewerdine
Recorded and mixed by Chris Pepper, Saltwell Studio
Mastered by Nigel Watson, Fluid Mastering

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Serious Child England, UK

Roots songwriter from the West Sussex woods

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