SEE THE TREE
HOW BIG IT'S GROWN
BUT FRIEND IT HAS N'T BEEN TOO LONG
IT WAS N'T BIG
I LAUGHED AT HER
AND SHE GOT MAD
THE FIRST DAY
THAT SHE PLAN TED IT WAS JUST A TWIG
THEN THE FIRST SNOW CAME
AND SHE RAN OUT
TO BRUSH THE SNOW A WAY
SO IT WOULD N'T DIE
CAME RUN NIN' IN
ALL EX CI TED
SLIPPED
AND AL MOST HURT HER SELF
SHE WAS AL WAYS YOUNG AT HEART
KIN DA DUMB
AND KIN DA SMART
AND I LOVED HER SO
AND I SUR PRISED HER
WITH A PU PPY
KEPT ME UP ALL CHRIST MAS EVE
TWO YEARS A GO
AND IT WOULD
SURE EM BA RRASS HER
WHEN I CAME IN
FROM WOR KIN' LATE
THAT SHE'D BEEN
SI TTIN' THERE AND CRY IN'
O VER SOME SAD AND SI LLY
LATE LATE SHOW
SHE WRECKED THE CAR
AND SHE WAS SAD
AND SO A FRAID THAT I'D BE MAD
BUT WHAT THE HECK
THOUGH I PRE TEN DED HARD TO BE
GUESS YOU COULD SAY
SHE SAW THROUGH ME
AND HUGGED MY NECK
I CAME HOME UN EX PEC TED LY
AND CAUGHT HER
CRY IN' NEED LESS LY
IN THE MID DLE OF THE DAY
AND IT WAS IN THE EAR LY SPRING
WHEN FLO WERS BLOOM
AND RO BINS SING
SHE WENT A WAY
AND HO NEY I MISS YOU
AND I'M BE ING GOOD
AND I'D LOVE TO BE WITH YOU
IF ON LY I COULD
ONE DAY
WHILE I WAS NOT AT HOME
WHILE SHE WAS THERE
AND ALL A LONE
NOW I HAVE
IS ME MO RIES OF HO NEY
AND I WAKE UP NIGHTS AND
CALL HER NAME
NOW MY LIFE'S AN EMP TY STAGE
WHERE HO NEY LIVED
AND HO NEY PLAYED
AND LOVE GREW UP
AND A SMALL CLOUD
PA SSES O VER HEAD
AND CRIES DOWN
ON THE FLO WER BED
AND SEE THE TREE
HOW BIG IT'S GROWN
BUT FRIEND
IT HAS N'T BEEN TOO LONG
AND I LAUGHED AT HER
AND SHE GOT MAD
THE FIRST DAY
THAT SHE PLAN TED IT
