Tree By The River

Mary Anne, do you remember

The tree by the river when we were seventeen?

Dark canyon wall, the call and the answer

And the mare in the pasture pitch black and baring its teeth

I recall the sun in our faces

Stuck and leaning on braces

And being strangers to change

Radio and the bones we found frozen

And all the thorns and the roses

Beneath your window pane

Now I'm asleep in a car

I mean the world to a potty-mouth girl

A pretty pair of blue-eyed birds

Time isn't kind or unkind

You liked to say but I wonder to who

What it is you're saying today?

Now I'm asleep in a car

I mean the world to a potty-mouth girl

A pretty pair of blue-eyed birds

Time isn't kind or unkind

You liked to say but I wonder to who

What it is you're saying today?

Mary Anne, do you remember

The tree by the river when we were seventeen?

Dark canyon road, I was coy in the half-moon

Happy just to be with you and you were happy for me