The Broken Tree

Did you take a journey oh?
Did you wind up all alone?
Did you sink down down low?
Tell me what it felt like in the throes...

Heavy in the depths of your memory,
Starin’ down the perfect ambiguity
Backroads of the mind...
Take your take your take your take your time

Did you get the message from me?
Down where you lay by the broken tree
Did you get the message from me?
Down where you lay by the broken tree

As you searched for something true
Your eyes ahead and ever skewed,
White cat streaks by your feet
Twisting tail flickers as she runs to me

Lifting of the fog, but the path is dark
Hands against the wall or you’ll fall apart
Clever is the mind...
Take your take your take your take your time

Did you get the message from me?
Down where you lay by the broken tree
Did you get the message from me?
Down where you lay by the broken tree

At the fork you’re so unclear
You almost turn back out of fear,
Something trembles in your soul
Questions press against your throat

You could run away but where would you go?
Everything stays with you, don’t you know?
Tragic is the mind...
Take your take your take your take your time

Love, your compass and memory, your map
Would you turn the arrow back?
Would you turn the arrow back?
Would you turn the arrow?

The arrow...

Did you get the message from me?
Down where you lay by the broken tree
Did you get the message from me?
Down where you lay by the broken tree

After one last backward glance
When I whispered 'take the chance,'
One way you will stay the same
The other may be risky but it calls your name

It calls your name...

So you take a tender step
Filled with hope, as much as dread
Forth she leaps, a flash of fur
Suddenly you’re laughing and you run with her

Did you get the message from me?
Down where you lay by the broken tree
Did you notice the lines between?
That’s where I hid the poetry...

I love you, forever and always