Simple Tree

You were cool, slippin' out of your skin, after school

Driftin' warm through the trees, to the pool

And all the kids comin' out, never knew

Just exactly the score

Baby, where is the girl that I knew?

Just before, fast asleep in her clothes, on the floor

Back two birds with one stone, in a storm

With your sweater on backwards and torn

There was nothing to warn me, I slept like a lamb in the corn

'Cause I'm goin' like I'd break the speed of sound

Kickin' up the dust, so all around

Coming like a cougar after me

Until you break down, around, these simple trees, tree

This is now, watchin' you and some curtains and clouds

If you could get up the nerve to relate

To the people with faces you hate

I'm gonna write you a song and explain everything that went wrong

'Cause I'm goin' like I'd break the speed of sound

Kickin' up the dust, so all around

Coming like a cougar after me

Until you break down around these simple trees, tree