The Singing Tree - Jeffrey Lewis

There are a million roots

Of the singing tree

And it has a million branches and each branch a million leaves

Rain falls in the river

River falls in the sea

The sea falls upside down into the singing tree

The singing tree is hidden

The singing tree is dark

The singing tree has castles hidden in its bark

The castle’s have no kings the castles have no queens

The people are all words there

Sung by the singing tree

Today I got a phonecall on my answering machine

It said «hello is Jeff there?

This is the singing tree

You might be surprised I’m calling

You might be surprised I have a phone

But no one wants to be a pole

And I’m lonely like a tree now

And I don’t wanna fall in the woods

I wanna find a honeybee now

Take me all around the world

I wanna stop barking up the wrong tree

I wanna turn over a new leaf

I wanna go back to the country

I wanna find the singing tree