I Will Remain

Further from my widowed home

Take the road that sets it to the sun

Waiting for my skin and bone to return

And see what I've become

Summer has not yet been here

Though my days are long

Take me back to when the night was young

And another song was sung

What of all those pretty tales?

The ones that took me to the stars?

It's a comfort in the siren's wail

Comfort upon this wooden floor

Tell you, is it a failure to forget the ones you once held dear?

And I tried to remember

But my mind is no longer clear

Whoa, you recognize me

I follow from, far from the trees

The roots came up, up to my knees

They twisted 'round

And I made no sound, no sound

I wandered till my brittle bone has succumbed

And pulled me to the stone

Further from the towns you've known

I'll remain from where I had begun

Stumble before I start

I was kicking over stones as a child

In the meadow, when the storm came through

And I burrowed straight back to you

Whoa, you recognize me

I follow from, far from the trees

The woods came up, up to my knees

They twisted 'round

I made no sound, no sound

And would you ever doubt my love

When my day is done?

I'll lay down my body

Within this earth I've won

Would you try to follow

The roads I had to walk?

There's a whisper in the willow

From there you'll hear me talk