Willow Tree

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I thought I saw you in the willow tree, I thought I heard you trying to comfort me, I wanted to be strong when you couldn’t be, I thought I saw you in the willow tree.

Now I’m clutching at the smoke of a faded memory, I can feel it in my fingertips but it just passes right between. And there’s a makeshift shrine, in the roots and vines, and the limbs that bow and weep, over the coloured stones and flowers grown to mark the place your body sleeps.

I thought I saw you in the willow tree, I thought I heard you trying to comfort me, I wanted to be strong when you couldn’t be, I thought I saw you in the willow tree.

You said it’s a well-written love, you’ll never know how good it was, until your tangled up in all your grief, that’s ringing in your head like a melody. It’s an iron fist in a velvet glove, knowing this moment had to come, and still felt like a sucker punch, even when I knew what the ending was. It’s a well written love, the one they wrote for us, staggered on a broken beat, rolling on off my tongue like sour candy.

I thought I saw you in the willow tree, I thought I heard you trying to comfort me, I wanted to be strong when you couldn’t be, I thought I saw you in the willow tree.

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from David Stone, released March 25, 2020

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