Follow You Down to the Red Oak Tree
Journey through Gossamer Dreams: Red Oak Tree Reflections
Lyrics
Follow you down to the red oak tree
Expressing a willingness to accompany someone to a specific location, possibly a red oak tree.
As the air moves thick through the hollow reeds
Describing the atmospheric movement through the reeds, creating a sensory and immersive setting.
Will you wait for me there until someone comes
Asking if the person will remain at the red oak tree until help arrives.
To carry me, carry me down
Requesting assistance to be taken down from the location.
See I have not I have not grown cold
Asserting that the speaker hasn't become emotionally distant or indifferent.
I have stole from men who have stole from those
Admitting to taking from others who themselves have taken from someone else.
With their arms so thin and their skin so old
Describing individuals with frail arms and aged skin, contrasting their condition with the youthfulness of the listener.
But you are young, you are young, you are young
Acknowledging the listener's youthful nature.
Then somebody laughs like it's all just for hell
Someone laughs dismissively, implying that the situation is hopeless.
As though we could not be saved from the depth of the well
Suggesting a belief that salvation is impossible from a seemingly deep and dire situation.
But the cloth that I make is a cloth you can sell
Referring to making a valuable product that can be sold, potentially for survival.
To pay for the gossamer seeds
Using the earnings to pay for delicate, ethereal seeds (symbolic).
Names get carved in the red oak tree
Highlighting the act of carving names into the tree, distinguishing those who leave and those who remain.
Of the ones who stay and the ones who leave
Emphasizing the significance of loyalty and departure, marked by inscribed names.
I will wait for you there with these cindered bones
Waiting at the tree with bones turned to ash, possibly indicating a prolonged wait or enduring commitment.
So follow me follow me down
Repeated emphasis on urging the listener to follow the speaker down, reinforcing the call to accompany.
Follow me follow me down
-Follow me follow me down
-Follow me follow me down
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