Lyric!spam.

[teylaminh]

Listening to the lengthy and random selection of MP3s that Eni gave me back in June as background music and came to the three tracks by Dave Matthews' Band, the first of which, "The Space Between", I'd already been sent, ironically, by pandorasblog last June (close enough) and the second of which was "The Dreaming Tree".

The Dreaming Tree
Standing here,
The old man said to me,
"Long before these crowded streets,
Here stood my dreaming tree."
Below it he would sit
For hours at a time.
Now progress takes away
What forever took to find,
And now he's falling hard,
He feels the falling dark,
How he longs to be
Beneath his dreaming tree.

Conquered fear to climb
A moment froze in time,
When the girl who first he kissed
Promised him she'd be his
Remembered mother's words
There beneath the tree
"No matter what the world
You'll always be my baby."
"Mommy come quick,
The dreaming tree has died."
The air is growing thick
A fear he cannot hide
The dreaming tree has died

Oh, have you no pity?
This thing I do
I do not deny it
All through this smile
As crooked as danger
I do not deny
I know in my mind
I would leave you now
If I had the strength to
I would leave you up
To your own devices
Will you not talk?
Can you take pity?
I don't ask much
But won't you speak, please?

From the start
She knew she had it made
Easy up 'til then
For sure she'd make the grade
Adorers came in hordes
To lay down in her wake
Gave it all she had
But treasures slowly fade
Now she's falling hard
Feels the fall of dark
How did this fall apart?

She drinks to fill it up
A smile of sweetest flowers
Wilted so and soured
Black tears stain the cheeks
That once were so admired
She thinks when she was small
There on her father's knee
How he had promised her,
"You'll always be my baby."
"Daddy come quick,
The dreaming tree has died
I can't find my way home
There is no place to hide
The dreaming tree has died."

Oh, if I had the strength to
I would leave you up
To your own devices
Will you not talk?
Can you take pity?
I don't ask much
But won't you speak, please?

Take me back, take me back, take me back...

Save me please.

Wow.

I want more DMB, please.

Comments

[thefleshfailure.livejournal.com]

I do have a few more DMB songs I could send if you like, though I should probably warn you - "The Space Between", "The Dreaming Tree", and "The Stone" are, IMHO, so many zillions of miles superior to the rest that they're on a completely different planet. So you may be a wee bit disappointed... just a pre-emptive warning...

[teylaminh.livejournal.com]

G'wan, then. I'm just intrigued more than anything else...

[thefleshfailure.livejournal.com]

Rightyo... shall be emailing you said songs imminently. Only got three more on my harddrive at the moment, though I'm sure I could dig up some more from various CDs if you so desired. I assume your Yahoo adress is okay?

[teylaminh.livejournal.com]

Yarr, Yahoo be fine.

Three will do for now. If I like them I'll buy some more anyway, as I desperately need to add to my CD collection. MP3s are good and everything, but there's nothing quite like the excitement of a new CD...

[thefleshfailure.livejournal.com]

Amen to that. All the time I've spent downloading over the past year or so, I totally forgot how awesome buying a new album could be.

[flatline2010.livejournal.com]

Y'know, at first I completely ignored the whole point of the post and thought you were asking for more Drum 'n Bass :| I have no idea why. I need to read properly.

[teylaminh.livejournal.com]

...and you should definitely know me better than that, Derek. :P

Are you coming out* on Saturday?

*To the pub, not in the Narnian sense.