There Is A Tree-Carrie Newcomer

[ti:There Is A Tree] [ar:Carrie Newcomer] [al:The Geography Of Light] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]There Is A Tree - Carrie Newcomer [00:15.38]Last night I dreamt you very near [00:18.61] [00:20.02]Though the night was dark beyond the glass [00:23.48] [00:25.12]I knew you'd left before I woke [00:28.25] [00:30.20]But you fogged the window when you passed [00:33.80] [00:35.31]The air was still and smelled like rain [00:38.84] [00:39.83]Though I'd never known so dry a spell [00:43.30] [00:44.78]And what I heard there in the dark [00:48.07] [00:50.11]Are the secrets I will never tell [00:53.10] [00:54.69]There is a tree beyond this world [00:58.10] [00:59.23]In it's ancient roots this song is curled [01:02.88] [01:03.72]I am the fool whose life's been spent [01:07.05] [01:08.42]Between what's said and what is meant [01:11.59] [01:24.90]I didn't mean what went so wrong [01:28.17] [01:29.51]Some things I wish I didn't know [01:33.16] [01:34.40]I've always lived inside my head [01:37.64] [01:40.00]And often utterly alone [01:42.90] [01:44.58]I'll be a pillow for your head [01:48.26] [01:49.33]You can make me promises you can't keep [01:52.78] [01:54.37]And I'll believe each word you've said [01:57.84] [01:59.61]And I'll hum to you while you sleep [02:04.28]There is a tree beyond this world [02:07.69] [02:08.84]In it's ancient roots this song is curled [02:12.50] [02:13.25]I am the fool whose life's been spent [02:16.94] [02:18.00]Between what's said and what is meant [02:21.19] [02:34.41]You took me by my shaking hand [02:37.87] [02:39.35]Laughed at me and closed the door [02:42.56] [02:43.94]And you put your hands to my waist [02:48.03] [02:49.36]And you waltzed me round the kitchen floor [02:53.36] [02:54.08]There is a tree beyond this world [02:57.57] [02:58.59]In it's ancient roots this song is curled [03:02.31] [03:02.98]I am the fool whose life's been spent [03:06.86] [03:07.88]Between what's said and what is meant [03:11.12] [03:24.33]So I will wander without fail [03:27.45] [03:29.16]In circles that grow ever wide [03:32.23] [03:33.88]The sky expands and then exhales [03:37.27] [03:39.12]With an ache that never will subside [03:42.65] [03:43.84]There is a tree beyond this world [03:47.18] [03:48.29]In it's ancient roots this song is curled [03:52.04] [03:52.73]I am the fool whose life's been spent [03:56.45] [03:57.53]Between what's said and what is meant