Tree Of Life

I parked my Chevy down by the shore

Same ol’ spot like a thousand times before

Sunset dancin’ on the waterline

And that tree still standin’ like a friend of mine

Ain’t much left ‘round here but time

But that tree keeps growin’ just fine

That’s the Tree of Life, down by the bay

It knows what to keep, what to throw away

Roots run deep where the stories hide

And I find a little more of me each time

Folks moved on, that dock’s near broke

But I still hear Mama’s Sunday jokes

Leaves come back, and they fall once more

Like love that stays behind the door

You said you’d be back in the spring —

This here tree remembers everything

That’s the Tree of Life, down by the bay

It holds all the words we couldn’t say

Branches reachin’ for a sky so wide

And I find a little more of me each time

Ain’t just bark and leaves…

It’s every memory I didn’t know I still believed

That’s the Tree of Life, down by the bay

Standin’ tall where I used to pray

It don’t judge, it don’t ask why —

It just stands, while the years roll by