David Wirsig - Tree People lyrics

I awoke as a ghost woke with no body, woke without breathing woke with no home O'er the ground I flowed like fog on the ocean, mist through the marshes to find you alone There in the grove lying between them, the two trees that stood there still as a stone There was no wind stillness and silence, when limbs began swaying all on their own The moon burned orange a flickering crescent glowed incandescent in the dim light it shone On the figures of our father and mother, and faces of others I had once known There in the grove soil was churning, roots began stirring shuffling slow Withering leaves trembling tree-things twisting towards you calling "come home" There in the grove frail branches found you and wrapped all around you bending your bones You opened your mouth yawning and gaping, only silence escaping I heard not a groan