Hanging out in the trees A wreckage as far as the eye can see The leaves at the bottom look lonely If only you were there
Strings and boxes make up for the losses That I feel for you And I fear if I told you You'd only grow colder And move hundreds of miles from here
You play in the smoke in silence till I spoke And you poked your way through To something beating hard I've only got eyes for you
But the wreckage is beginning to fail Falling through the branches The engine, still ignited Began to spark a light And you could see my ***** face Through the old, scratchy pine And I looked into your coal black eyes And prayed that you were mine
From 9 to 5 you visited me My limbs still twisted and bruised Hanging up in the tree A personal scarecrow for you And one day I tried to climb up To wipe the dirt away But you slipped and fell I screamed like hell And forced myself free
Out of the wreckage I rose The ground came closer and closer I went to touch your lifeless face But my shaking hands just froze I wish I could have caught you And now you are the wreckage too
So I climbed back into the tree And burrowed there for three hundred years Staring down at you wither away And as soon as my mouth could no longer speak I did what I've dreamt of most I fell like you, through the branches too