Tell My Story

I shook loose from the branches and fell down

I rolled downhill along until I stopped there on the ground

The runoff pushed me deep into the earth

I burrowed down into the mossy dirt

To tell my story

I broke into the morning dew at dawn

One chilly morning just before the frost was coming on

And I'll be here beneath the ice and snow

Till springtime comes along and lets me know

To tell my story

I grew up strong below the rock ridge line

Until the day I saw what lay beyond the other side

Water just as far as I could see

The echo of the silence beckons me

To tell my story

Ooh I love to feel the branches catch the wind

As it whistles up and down the mountainside

I hear it howl I hear it whispering

An even if it bends and breaks me I will tell my story

Forever I would stand against the sky

But the axe is laid unto the root the saw into my side

As I fell I gave a mighty groan

Bound and broken carried from my home

I was trusted to the carpenter

Fitted as the centerpiece steady and secure

Stepping up to where the seagulls fly

I look upon my own two wings of white

Oooh I love to feel the canvas catch the wind

As it ripples out across the ocean tide

I hear it howl I hear it whispering

No matter where it takes me I will tell my story

I've found my place in what it takes

To carry all the hopes and dreams

Of the ones who gave up everything

But the faith it took to leave

Like the faith of just one seed

Many miles and many moons have gone

Now I hear the watchman calling in the dawn

The promise of a land where they'd be free

Just beyond the shore there stands a tree

To tell my story