The Leaning Tree - Sun Kil Moon

Scattered relics of your love

Just lying around your dusty room

Bearing old souls, old men, old scars

Dissonant wallow of guitars

Burning off Indian sun

On the water barges hung

Through the bay window panes

Covers, magnify, and brings

Sleepy poet’s perfect dream

Pastel homes along the sea

This I would, this I will

Leave to join you in the hills

For you I would, for you I will

Leave this for the auburn hills

Find your old peeling house

Find you out there

Hear the owl call from the trees

Smell the midnight forest breeze

Shield you from this dark and night

Wake you in the morning

You came to me in a dream

Walking down the path by the cold, icy stream

The white of the snow coating the past

In the Sierra wintertime you disappeared

You left me alone in the old master room in my mountain home

And I called for you so many times

And longed for one more day with you in my life

I longed for one more day with you in my life

I see you there in my dreams

Your poise is perfect, balanced statuesque queen

Your beautiful hair, your ocean blue eyes

You bear the depths of your loss inside

And I begged of you so many times

Forgive me once and for all for all of my lies

To forgive me once and for all for all of my lies

Oh mommy, the leaning tree like a diamond

As we pass the long dead grass, thirsty in the sun

Memories rest beyond the broken fence, let their spirits be

The birds have left their mother’s nest on the roses' thorns

There they swing over the bleach-white grain, sprawled over the hill