The style of this track is unusual.  Influences for it would be Pink Floyd, The Doors, Pearl Jam, Nine Inch Nails, anything '60s.  This is a brand new song, and the first version.  I'm sure I'll do a lot of work to it.  Version 2:  corrected an issue with verse 3: the guitar and the bass guitar didn't agree on the tempo.  re-recorded the guitar part there.  At some point I want to add another vocal track to the beginning, but for now, it's good the way it is.

Lyrics:

The day the world ended for me,
heaven bound my soul to this tree.
So all the generations I'd see
destroyed by pain and misery --
          Misery caused by me.

Recall the moment that I died.
Hot and sharp pain from the knife.
Then I receded inside.
Forgot the voices screaming in strife,
          Strife against my life.

Behind my headstone I preside.
Looking down from here on high.
This is where I meet my little bride.
Every day she comes here and cries.
           Cries for my demise.

I wish that you would let me go.
It wasn't your fault or your woe.
I couldn't buy it, so I stole.
I got cut you didn't know.
           It cost me everything.

Chorus 1:
I see you there.  Can you hear me?
Do you know that you are near me?
I feel no pain anymore,
Just the gentle, sweeping breeze
As it brushes through the leaves
            How I wish that you could see.

Bridge:
I never meant to hurt you.
I never meant to burn it down.
I didn't want to desert you.
My anger let you down.

Chorus 2:
I see you there, can you hear me?
Do you sense that you are near me?
I'm up here and not down there,
Left my bones for worthless wares,
and I ruined everything.

Coda:
Take it from me
The man in the tree.
We pay for all our deeds.

Take it from me
The man in the tree.
Be careful what you be.

Take it from me
The man in the tree. . . .

The Man In the Tree

Matt Cantrell