Original song lyrics

Evergreen

                (intro)

                 (verse)

Tell your daughter I remember

All the piles of fallen leaves.

That I'll hold her mid-September

In the arms of evergreens

And the final call

And the love of all

Will be all she believes.

It is all she believes.

She left her soul in the garden

To grow and kiss the sky

And the stars would beg her pardon

As they watched and stood by

And the heart in the sleeve

And how her eyes gleamed

Then left us to be forgotten.

How the age had been forgotten.

               (chorus)

Leave your hopes on the water dear.

They won't do you any good here.

And the fallen trees

And autumn breeze

Flew right between

My summer dream

It's evergreen

It's evergreen

It's evergreen

                  (verse 2)

Tell your son I remember

That he's searching for his queen

That the fires and the embers

Burn so viciously

And all is wild

In the eyes of a child

As the flames catch fallen leaves

As their eyes shine serpentine

Someday he's made to wonder

Why the shackles hold his name.

His heart lightning, his breath thunder.

Still he cannot stop the change.

What does he seek?

Is he too weak?

Or is it just the age?

The marks on the page?

                (chorus)

                (bridge)

And the silence sneaks around so easily

Until it shakes you at the bones.

I wish I knew what it means

But I still can't let it go

It's evergreen

It's evergreen

It's evergreen

                  (verse1/2)

                  (chorus)

                   (outro)