Name: Tree
Duration: P00H03M54S
Description: Tree is about pursuing something that a person can never get, and the realization that they have been wasting away chasing it.

Tree

from The Man Behind the Wheel by Jona Lyons

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Tree is about pursuing something that a person can never get, and the realization that they have been wasting away chasing it.

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Take a nail and a board and you find a tree.
Hide up high, beyond my vision.
I can hear when you sing. All the water hits me.
When I look up all I see is light.

According to others there is no tree,
Just a board with a nail driven straight into me.
So why do I stand out here in this field in the winter?

It's a freezing rain and it's bright as the sun.
Oh you sound so good, but you are no fun.
Why do I get burned as I shiver around?
Up inside your tree got me nice on the ground.

Grab a hand let it go, turn the coffee cold.
Lose a lot and gain a little.
Lead me on with a carrot, you're oh so bold.
I've been circling round this tree for years.

According to others there is no tree,
Just a board with a nail driven straight into me.
So why do I stand here out in this field as I'm dying?

It's a freezing rain and it's bright as the sun.
Oh you sound so good, but you are no fun.
Why do I get burned as I shiver around?
Up inside your tree got me nice on the ground.

You're a fancy thing, but you aint very real,
Just a happy thought I was hoping to feel.
How do I decide all the good from the bad?
Days I never knew were the best I had.

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from The Man Behind the Wheel, released August 9, 2011
Keith Holland (mixing) Jonathan Neal (organ)

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Jona Lyons Anaheim, California

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Rudolph

Dec 2016
I Can

Apr 2012
The Man Behind the Wheel

Aug 2011
Wheel

Jun 2008

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