Whistling Tree

Hold your breath and just hold me

To keep from breathing in the secondhand smoke of what we’re supposed to be

‘Cause they’re just conmen selling us their lines

Yea they wrap around our heads, take up they can, and leave our hearts behind

So won’t you meet me in that secret place where lovers go to hide their face

So when the sun sinks low find the place we’re free

Come down my love to the whistling tree

Won’t you take my hand and follow my lead

Come down my love to the whistling tree

Blood in the roots, whispers in the leaves

From all the carved-out scars, forgotten names of lovers and their dreams

And in this stillness we move with ease

If this is the only place I can be with you, then this is where I’ll be

So won’t you meet me in that secret place where lovers go to hide their face

Here the time moves slow and the air tastes sweet

Come down my love to the whistling tree

Won’t you take my hand and follow my lead

Come down my love to the whistling tree

For far too long, I’ve been casting my eyes down

I never knew the way it made me numb

I’m tired, love, of hiding in the shadows

I long to see our colors in the sun

‘Cause you are honey on my lips, the warmth glowing under my skin

And if heaven isn’t here with you, then I don’t care to taste it

Some call us sinners, but I swear that you make me clean

‘Cause you are everything I’ve ever wanted, you’re all I’ll ever need

And I know you hate this, biting down on your scream

But if you’re leaving here for good this time, don’t you dare go without me

So won’t you meet me in that secret place where lovers go to hide their face

Speak your heart out loud, see the way it gleams

Come down my love to the whistling tree

Won’t you take my hand and follow my lead

Come down my love to the whistling tree

With this one last cry maybe they could see

Come down my love to the whistling tree

Won’t you take my hand and swing with me

From a knot in a rope in the whistling tree