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 graces

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 parted-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 parted-mouth girl

A pretty pair of blue-eyed birds

"Time isn't kind or unkind," you liked to say

But I wonder to who

And 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