Say Goodbye To The Little Girl Tree Lyrics - Cave Nick

O say goodbye to the little girl tree. 

O you know that I must say goodbye 

To the little girl tree. 

This wall I built around you 

Is made out of stone-lies. 

O little girl the truth would be 

An axe in thee. 

O father look to your daughter 

Brick of grief and stricken morter. 

With this ring 

This silver hoop of wire 

I bind your maiden mainstream 

Just to keep you as a child. 

O say goodbye to the little girl tree. 

O you know that I must say goodbye 

To my little girl tree. 

How fast your candy bones 

Reached out for me. 

I must say goodbye to your brittle bones 

Crying out for me. 

O you know that I must say goodbye. 

O goodbye. 

Even though you will betray me 

The very minute that I leave. 

O say goodbye to the little girl tree. 

O Lord you know that I must say goodbye 

To that little girl tree. 

I rise up her girl-child lumps and slipping knots 

Into her laden boughs 

And amongst her roping limbs 

Like a swollen neck vein branching 

Into smaller lesser veins 

That must all just sing and say goodbye 

And let her blossom veils fly. 

Her velvet gown. 

Down down down. 

Down down down. 

Down down down and goodbye. 

For you know that I must say goodbye. 

To a rhythm softly tortured 

Of a motion back and forth. 

Thats a rhythm sweetly tortured 

O thats the rhythm of the orchard. 

And you know that I must say goodbye 

To that little girl tree. 

O goodbye. 

Yes goodbye. 

For you know that I must die. 

Down down down. 

Down down down. 

Down down down and goodbye. 

For you know that I must die. 

Yes you know that I must die. 

O-o you know that I must die.