Sweet Tree Bitter Tree
Sweet Tree Bitter Tree
It is a spring morning today
Your fruits are almost ripe
And everything here is yellow and green.
But I have done it again
Three times in the last year
And I’m not worried.
Sweet Tree Bitter Tree
Every time I see you, I’m lost in you
You are my dwarf
You are the boss of my dreams
You are my death.
Sweet Tree Bitter Tree
When the wind blows heavily through your branches and leaves
I sit down beside your roots and listen.
I listen to your motions and they are ringing in my ears
They look like words
Those words go through my mind endlessly
Words of love, words of freedom, words of death
If only these words could bring you back.
Sweet Tree Bitter Tree
Inside of you I see a small old man
He’s trying to get out, to touch me, to whisper
And I recognize the voice
A voice from the grave.
Are you there dad?
Why did you leave so soon?
It was so heartbreaking
I can’t forget that fateful day
You had to leave, you went away
You have left my heart broken
shattered like broken glass upon the floor.
Sweet Tree Bitter Tree
Nothing is just what it seems to be
But in the end, there is a certain sense of order here.
I have nothing against life
And again I have nothing against death
Both of those seem to be different things
Both of those are so tied up in each other
They are like two sides of the same coin
And I like to keep them closely together.
Sweet Tree Bitter Tree
Today is going to be another perfect day
And Ican do it once again.
Let me cross your strong, thick and protective tree bark
Open the darkness for me
After the black of the black
I see the lightness
And It is only the beginning
Let me in
I will come soon.
