10000 Maniacs
Cherry Tree
[ Robert Buck/Natalie Merchant ]
Over your shoulder, please don`t mind me
if my eyes have fallen onto your magazine
for I`ve been watching and wondering
why your face is changing with every line you read.
All those lines and circles, to me, a mystery.
Eve pull down the apple and give taste to me.
If she would be wonderful, but my pride is in the way.
I cannot read to save my life, I`m so ashamed to say.
I live in silence, afraid to speak
of my life of darkness because I cannot read.
For all those lines and circles, to me, a mystery.
Eve pull down the apple and give taste to me.
If she could it would be wonderful.
Then I wouldn`t need someone else`s eyes to see what`s in front of me.
No one guiding me.
It makes me humble to be so green
at what every kid can do when he learns A to Z,
but all those lines and circles just frighten me
and I fear that I`ll be trampled if you don`t reach for me.
Before I run I`ll have to take a fall.
And then pick myself up, so slowly I`ll devour every one of those books in the Tower of Knowledge.
Cherry Tree
[ Robert Buck/Natalie Merchant ]
Over your shoulder, please don`t mind me
if my eyes have fallen onto your magazine
for I`ve been watching and wondering
why your face is changing with every line you read.
All those lines and circles, to me, a mystery.
Eve pull down the apple and give taste to me.
If she would be wonderful, but my pride is in the way.
I cannot read to save my life, I`m so ashamed to say.
I live in silence, afraid to speak
of my life of darkness because I cannot read.
For all those lines and circles, to me, a mystery.
Eve pull down the apple and give taste to me.
If she could it would be wonderful.
Then I wouldn`t need someone else`s eyes to see what`s in front of me.
No one guiding me.
It makes me humble to be so green
at what every kid can do when he learns A to Z,
but all those lines and circles just frighten me
and I fear that I`ll be trampled if you don`t reach for me.
Before I run I`ll have to take a fall.
And then pick myself up, so slowly I`ll devour every one of those books in the Tower of Knowledge.