Willow Tree - FAMILY

Willow tree, I’ve watched and I’ve waited

Crying forlorn on the bank of a stream

For some loss of a friend or lover

Hoping that time will intervene

Is all that you need just someone to believe

Stand under your boughs and reach out a hand

The truth of the hand that touches your leaves

all that you are

Willow tree wooden, I’ve watched and waited

I’ve been lit both by moonbeam and sun of the day

For some tragic loss of a friend or lover

Hoping that time will intervene

(ALTERNATE 1st VERSE) Willow tree wooden, were you once a woman

Crying forlorn on the bank of a stream

For some tragic loss of a friend or lover

Hoping that time will somehow intervene

(ALTERNATE 2nd VERSE) Is all that you need just someone to believe

Stand under your boughs and reach out a hand

The truth of the hand that touches your leaves

Release you and end your perpetual stand

(ALTERNATE 3rd VERSE) Willow tree wooden, I’ve watched and waited

I’ve been lit both by moonbeam and sun of the day

Biding my time here, just sitting and thinking

How many years before you fade away?