I Am A Tree        

A tree by the water,  my roots growing deep
 Into the lake, feel the current… weep

50 years older, my bark falling off
birds in my branches, flying creatures of many colors

  Listening to liquor
Heed all the brains
  Feed all the sick ones
Leaves in the rain

Wind rocking my boughs
Lightning is threatening
A narrow escape, down my long 
Hallway of dreams 


     Rockets and kites   
Hide under my hat
     Bats and Oppossums    
Live above that
   Insects and woodpeckers   
Make me their home
  The tide always feeds me
I drink all,  I drink all of its foam

Plenty of fluids
I got junk in my trunk
Trees don’t decide 
When the sun wants to hide

  Listening to liquor
Heed all the brains
  Feed all the sick ones
Leaves in the rain

Life can be greedy
Life can be brief
We all have to meet
The electric sleep

© July 2016 Beeftone Music, BMI
Music/Words: Biff Moyer