I Will Remain

Further from my widowed home

Take the road that sets into 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 this door

Is it comfort in the salvers way

Is it 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

Oooh ooooh oooh, you recognise me

Oooh ooooh oooh, I follow far, far from the trees

Oooh ooooh oooh, the roots came out, up to my knees

Oooh ooooh oooh, they twisted round

I made no sound... No sound

I wondered till my brittle bones had succumbed

And pulled me to the stone

Further from the towns you've known

I'll remain from where I have begun

Summer before I start

I was kicking home stones as a child

In the meadow when the storm came through

And I burrowed straight back to you

Oooh ooooh oooh, you recognise me

Oooh ooooh oooh, I follow from, far from the trees

Oooh ooooh oooh, the roots came out, up to my knees

Oooh ooooh oooh, they twisted round

I made no sound... No sound

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

For there you'll hear me talk