two saplings

Trouble in my head, trouble in my heart

I’ll lay in my bed, listen to that old steel guitar

These days I still get around

But even I hear the call

And there’s nowhere to fall

When the falling is all

It is all that you’ve got

The trees are my friends

Only ones I’ve ever loved

Will they hear me when I fall

Count the rings I have grown and felled?

I’m leaving on that midnight train

See you by the station wall

And there’s nowhere to fall

When the falling is all

It is all that you’ve got

See me when I fall

I’ll be better off having called it a life well lived

I’ll get to see my Ma and Pa

But I’ll still be missing you

The two saplings 

Speak now to me

Be like the breeze

And there’s nowhere to fall

When the falling is all

It is all that you’ve got

Catch me, I think I’m falling under tow

Speak softly, like the leaves on the winter snow

And you, you try to leave me alone

And you, you try to leave me alone…