:) :(

Cross my heart and hope to die
Never meant so much before
I’m counting down to July
You're passed out on the floor

Somewhere behind the oak
Of the forest that you were…

Streaks across my window pane
Like the ones across your face
Was it rock and roll or cocaine
That helped you fall to this disgrace?

Somewhere behind the oak
Of the forest that you were
I guess that something broke
That night you burnt the fir

Dusty greyscale living rooms
Filled with the lost and fallen
The old musty stinging fumes
Of rotting, stinking pollen

The forest beckoned you back home
You were afraid to be alone
You brought two cans of kerosene
And burnt down the great evergreen
Because nothing really stays the same
Without someday going up in flames

Somewhere behind the oak
Of the forest that you were
I guess that something broke
That night you burnt the fir

I hear the echoes at night
Of the you before you crossed
The long-lost laugh of delight
Of an evergreen angel lost