Текст песни: As a Tree + перевод

I had a dream that I died but didn’t feel the fear of giving up

I fell fifty feet from an old red oak

All the branches broke when lightning struck

I sank into the ground, swam with the rocks

And the bones of the birds left before

Me, I couldn’t be happier than I had learned what I was living for

With no air to breathe I tried for the surface

But the weight of the rocks held my arms in their mercy

So I mustered all the strength that I’d ever had

And I yelled out for help hoping that someone would pass

A woman came and dug me out of the earth

She said, «you're too old for another human birth»

She put me back in the ground and I grew as a tree

In the pouring rain nothing bothers me

I lost my voice and I lost my clothes

Like a child I knew I never had a need for those

My arms grew wide and my feet dug in

I offer shade and shelter to all my friends

Then the rain froze and I was asleep

So I took a deep breath to save my energy

But when I awoke, all my leaves were gone

I tried not to panic as if nothing’s wrong

And from the south a heavy swirling wind

Lifted me off of the ground somewhere I’d never been

And I felt like I was a king

My trunk had dissolved and my frozen branches turned to wings

With the power of flight my eyes did see

All the miracles of everybody everywhere and everything

Like a fertile plain or the month of May

Everything is sane and I cannot complain

Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh

Oooh oooh oooh oooh

I had a dream that I died but didn’t feel the fear of giving up

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