The Tree

This song ain't for everybody

For everybody that don't know

Little seed got planted when a song got sung that a hillbilly blues man wrote

Country music was born

Like a tree in the dirt

And it came up strong

And down to earth

It's all about the branches now

Everybody been branchin' out

Pulling up what's in the ground

Deep down in Tennessee

We're gettin' a little too far from the

Three chords and the truth part of it

Forgettin' where the roots are

Is gonna kill the tree

Some songs ain't for everybody

So what about folks like me

Whose life soundtrack ain't some watered-down hip-hop melody?

I'm all 'bout gettin' somewhere

Don't break, just bend

But I'm scared we're gettin' somewhere

A little too far out on a limb

It's all about the branches now

Everybody been branchin' out

Pulling up what's in the ground

Deep down in Tennessee

We're gettin' a little too far from the

Three chords and the truth part of it

Forgettin' where the roots are

You're gonna kill the tree

It's all about the branches now

Everybody been branchin' out

Forgettin' what it's all about

And what it used to be

We're gettin' a little too far from the

Three chords and the truth part

Forgettin' where the roots are

You're gonna kill the tree

If we forget where the roots are

We're gonna kill the tree

We're gonna kill the tree