Cactus Tree-Caroline Herring

[ti:Cactus Tree] [ar:Caroline Herring] [al:Golden Apples of the Sun] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Cactus Tree - Caroline Herring [00:10.57]There's a man who's been out sailing [00:12.87]In a decade full of dreams [00:14.75] [00:15.58]And he takes her to a schooner [00:17.64] [00:18.31]And he treats her like a queen [00:20.76]Bearing beads from California [00:22.94] [00:23.48]With their amber stones and green [00:26.27] [00:29.76]He has called her from the harbor [00:33.52]He has kissed her with his freedom [00:37.31]He has heard her off to starboard [00:41.10]In the breaking and the breathing [00:43.74]Of the water weeds [00:48.30] [00:48.83]While she was busy being free [00:52.92] [00:56.25]There's a man who's climbed a mountain [00:58.80]And he's calling out her name [01:01.29]And he hopes her heart can hear [01:03.59]Three thousand miles [01:04.93]He calls again [01:06.25]He can think her there beside him [01:08.30] [01:08.99]He can miss her just the same [01:12.34] [01:15.30]He has missed her in the forest [01:18.92]While he showed her all the flowers [01:22.72]And the branches sang the chorus [01:26.41]As he climbed the scaley towers [01:28.99]Of a forest tree [01:33.59] [01:34.19]While she was somewhere being free [01:38.30] [01:41.59]There's a man who's sent a letter [01:43.98]And he's waiting for reply [01:46.57]He has asked her of her travels [01:48.71] [01:49.27]Since the day they said goodbye [01:51.60]He writes "Wish you were beside me [01:54.21]We can make it if we try" [01:57.43] [02:00.56]He has seen her at the office [02:04.19]With her name on all his papers [02:07.93]Thru the sharing of the profits [02:11.15] [02:11.74]He will find it hard to shake her [02:14.42]From his memory [02:18.99] [02:19.58]And she's so busy being free [02:23.66] [02:27.05]There's a lady in the city [02:29.47]And she thinks she loves them all [02:31.92]There's the one who's thinking of her [02:34.42]There's the one who sometimes calls [02:37.00]There's the one who writes her letters [02:39.00] [02:39.62]With his facts and figures scrawl [02:42.44] [02:45.85]She has brought them to her senses [02:49.58]They have laughed inside her laughter [02:53.28]Now she rallies her defenses [02:57.03]For she fears that one will ask her [02:59.63]For eternity [03:04.45]And she's so busy being free [03:08.59] [03:22.14]There's a man who sends her medals [03:24.34]He is bleeding from the war [03:26.84]There's a jouster and a jester and a man [03:30.33]Who owns a store [03:32.07]There's a drummer and a dreamer [03:34.06] [03:34.60]And you know there may be more [03:37.25] [03:40.86]She will love them when she sees them [03:44.56]They will lose her if they follow [03:48.21]And she only means to please them [03:51.46] [03:51.98]And her heart is full and hollow [03:54.67]Like a cactus tree [03:59.49]While she's so busy being free [04:03.66] [04:07.05]Like a cactus tree being free