Old Man Willow - Elephant's Memory

Somewhere there’s an Old Man Willow

Weeping all alone

People laugh at him

Sit and stare everywhere

He doesn’t care

He just sits there by his river

Gazing at the sky

What’s the reason why

Is he there anywhere

People don’t know why he sits there and cries

They think he’s got a secret but they don’t realize

He’s just hot — he’s got a fly on his shoulder

He wants to swat it off but his limbs have grown older

He’s tired and sick and he can’t walk away

To find some shade like he has made for others of the ____

He stopped to look at the sun one day

He didn’t realize that he would be there to stay

It doesn’t matter what the people think

He just want’s to get out of the sun

To find a place that he can go to sleep

Somewhere there’s an Old Man Willow

Weeping tears of rain

Wind blows in his eyes

As they stare everywhere…