Crooked Branches

In the afternoon of a summer day

I saw you walking in the lake

Yellow dress soaked up to your waist

Into the sun he led you by the hand

Smoothing for you out the sand

Nearly dying from the love he felt

But he smiled to be alive

And to know you're nearly dying

From it too

In your life gone ablaze

He held you high out of the flames

Heaven knows you've seen

The worst of things

But in his eyes the calm awakes

In you the child who lost it's way

To sail you from your

Growing up sea of pain

And I swear it when you smile

That you still look like a child to me

No matter if the rain falls on you