[Verse 1]
Do you still sing of the mountain bed we made of limbs and leaves?
Do you still sigh there near the sky where the holly berry bleeds?
You laughed as I covered you over with leaves, face, breast, hips, and thighs
You smiled when I said the leaves were just the color of your eyes
[Verse 2]
Rosin smells and turpentine smells from eucalyptus and pine
Bitter tastes of twigs we chewed where tanglewood vines twine
Trees held us in on all four sides, so thick we could not see
I could not see any wrong in you, and you saw none in me
[Verse 3]
Your arm was brown against the ground, your cheeks part of the sky
Your fingers played with grassy moss, as limber you did lie
Your stomach moved beneath your shirt and your knees were in the air
Your feet played games with mountain roots as you lay thinking there
[Verse 4]
Below us the trees grew clumps of trees, raised families of trees, and they
As proud as we tossed their heads in the wind and flung good seeds away
The sun was hot and the sun was bright down in the valley below
Where people, starved and hungry for life so empty, come and go
[Verse 5]
There in the shade and hid from the sun, we freed our minds and learned
Our greatest reason for being here, our bodies moved and burned
There on our mountain bed of leaves, we learned life’s reason why
People laugh and love and dream, they fight, they hate to die
Do you still sing of the mountain bed we made of limbs and leaves?
Do you still sigh there near the sky where the holly berry bleeds?
You laughed as I covered you over with leaves, face, breast, hips, and thighs
You smiled when I said the leaves were just the color of your eyes
[Verse 2]
Rosin smells and turpentine smells from eucalyptus and pine
Bitter tastes of twigs we chewed where tanglewood vines twine
Trees held us in on all four sides, so thick we could not see
I could not see any wrong in you, and you saw none in me
[Verse 3]
Your arm was brown against the ground, your cheeks part of the sky
Your fingers played with grassy moss, as limber you did lie
Your stomach moved beneath your shirt and your knees were in the air
Your feet played games with mountain roots as you lay thinking there
[Verse 4]
Below us the trees grew clumps of trees, raised families of trees, and they
As proud as we tossed their heads in the wind and flung good seeds away
The sun was hot and the sun was bright down in the valley below
Where people, starved and hungry for life so empty, come and go
[Verse 5]
There in the shade and hid from the sun, we freed our minds and learned
Our greatest reason for being here, our bodies moved and burned
There on our mountain bed of leaves, we learned life’s reason why
People laugh and love and dream, they fight, they hate to die
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