Raking leaves and shoveling snow
Trying to pretend this is normal
If I hadn't seen your face I'd never know
You'd been dying since the funeral
Father, father, like a tree
Tall as an evergreen
Falling like a frail old thing
I remember the sound of a heavy blow,
The whistle of a tree as it goes down slow
Oh, where, oh, where did you go?
I found you on the forest floor
The winds, they'd carried you to and fro
Down to the earth below
Falling in the windthrow
At the start of the storm
Grandpa quickly took a turn
So you hopped on a plane and you never returned
Quit your job at the record store
Father, father, like a tree
Tall as an evergreen
Falling like a frail old thing
I remember the sound of a heavy blow
The whistle of a tree as it goes down slow
Oh, where, oh, where did you go?
I found you on the forest floor
The winds, they'd carried you to and fro
Down to the earth below
Falling in the windthrow
