Kathy Mattea
Kathy Mattea - The Maple's Lament lyrics
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When I was alive, the birds would nest upon my bows And through long winter nights the storms would ground me how And when the day would call I'd raise my branches to the sun I was the child of earth and sky and all the world was one But now that I am dead, the birds no longer singing me And I feel no more the wind and rain as when I was a tree But bound so tight in wire strings I have no room to grow And I am but a slave who sings when master draws the bowl But sometimes, in my memories, I can see the birds in fly And I can sing of sweet dark earth and endless starry nights But, oh, my favorite song of all I truly do believe Is the song that sunlight sang to me while dancing on my leaves