10000 Maniacs - Cherry Tree lyrics

[ robert buck/natalie merchant ]<br><br><br>Over your shoulder, please don't mind me<br>If my eyes have fallen onto your magazine<br>For I've been watching and wondering<br>Why your face is changing with every line you read.<br><br>All those lines and circles, to me, a mystery.<br>Eve pull down the apple and give taste to me.<br>If she would be wonderful, but my pride is in the way.<br>I cannot read to save my life, I'm so ashamed to say.<br><br>I live in silence, afraid to speak<br>Of my life of darkness because I cannot read.<br><br>For all those lines and circles, to me, a mystery.<br>Eve pull down the apple and give taste to me.<br>If she could it would be wonderful.<br>Then I wouldn't need someone else's eyes to see what's in front of me.<br>No one guiding me.<br><br>It makes me humble to be so green<br>At what every kid can do when he learns a to z,<br><br>But all those lines and circles just frighten me<br>And I fear that I'll be trampled if you don't reach for me.<br>Before I run I'll have to take a fall.<br>And then pick myself up, so slowly I'll devour every one of those books in the tower of knowledge.