Cottonwoods

I can still hear them rustle
I can still see their light
The way that they could catch the wind blow
Makes me still wonder why

You couldn’t see them like a family
Maybe sisters standing tall
Yet they would carry me through summer
As I swung all day long

Oh where oh where did you go
I was just passing by to say hello
Does this man know what he’s done
For the ease of a fall without some snow

I thought they were so ancient
When I was just a child
Jokes on me cause they were children
Still waiting to grow tall

All those years alone not really
There were friends standing by
You can say they didn’t feel it
But I cried when they died

Oh where oh where did you go
I was just passing by to say hello
Does this man know what he’s done
For the ease of a life lived for one