10000 Maniacs: "Cherry Tree" Lyrics

[ robert buck/natalie merchant ]





Over your shoulder, please dont mind me

If my eyes have fallen onto your magazine

For Ive been watching and wondering

Why your face is changing with every line you read.



All those lines and circles, to me, a mystery.

Eve pull down the apple and give taste to me.

If she would be wonderful, but my pride is in the way.

I cannot read to save my life, Im so ashamed to say.



I live in silence, afraid to speak

Of my life of darkness because I cannot read.



For all those lines and circles, to me, a mystery.

Eve pull down the apple and give taste to me.

If she could it would be wonderful.

Then I wouldnt need someone elses eyes to see whats in front of me.

No one guiding me.



It makes me humble to be so green

At what every kid can do when he learns a to z,



But all those lines and circles just frighten me

And I fear that Ill be trampled if you dont reach for me.

Before I run Ill have to take a fall.

And then pick myself up, so slowly Ill devour every one of those books in the tower of knowledge.