"Come boy, come" Said the Giving Tree

Freely taking what pleased me

I ate it up and threw it away

How she asked, how I never would stay

Never crying, unless I was gone

Breaking down when she was alone

I never saw her bleed for me

So I assumed she wasn't quite the Giving Tree

She was mine, and I thought forever more

It would be my name that she wore

How could she leave me for something else?

No one would take her, excepting myself

Such a beaten, broken, different little girl,

Dancing down the sidewalk, living in her world

She was kind enough for me to love

Whenever I was lost, she gave me a shove

She kept me on track, and I never knew

All along, my darling, it was you

Who kept me smiling and kept me alive

Anytime I needed it, she took a dive

Never did I see how beautiful she is

And I've ended up as the boy who wasted his

chance to love a girl like the Tree

Now I know she doesn't need me

Because of my mistakes, what I've done

Gone and left her bleeding alone

By and by, I pushed her too far

She never angered, just let me go far

away from her, and told me she was fine

Didn't want to hurt me, she wasted her time

With such a boy as me

Down she fell, my Giving Tree

Then she cried more, it was then I could see

The poison that killed her, the poison was me

Broken again, breaking still,

Darling's lost her only will

Because I've crushed her heart, killed all her joy

And I am ashamed, because I was the boy

who let go of who I now want to be

Now she's dead, my love,

My Giving Tree