Into the Trees
Album: Treelines and Skylines
By: Folkstar
By: Folkstar
Duration
4:14
Genres
Description
"Into the Trees" originated as a poem about belonging to the trees and coming to my final resting place beneath them. The song brought to the forefront the virtues of the forest as a place of balance. The verses and pre-chorus describe a struggle between two worlds, that of nature and that of man: "one foot in nature, one foot on the street." While the first verse claims I'm "nature's orphan in human hands," the second explains that it's "both I need." There is a dichotomy that remains unreso...
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I have a hundred songs I'll never write A thousand notes I’ll never play I have a light that burns unseen As I walk alone into the trees I've always lived my life on the periphery In a world that makes no sense Lost among the chaos Nature's orphan in human hands Struggle to carve out a place Bending until I break What's real and true is the earth and the leaves They never lie, they never deceive There's a reason for each and every thing And the animals, they run free Into the trees Into the trees Into the trees One foot in nature, one foot on the street The pull of the wild, the push to agree Not one or the other, but both I need And one is disappearing right in front of me Struggle to carve out a place Bending until I break What's real and true is the earth and the leaves They never lie, they never deceive There's a reason for each and every thing And the animals, they run free Into the trees Into the trees Into the trees I have a light that burns unseen As I walk alone into the trees There my soul will gently sleep There my soul will gently sleep
