Ghost Ship - Poison Tree lyrics

This tree bears strange fruit There's blood on the leaves, it's dead at the roots The cracked grey branches are decaying within Just like the black poison that hangs from it's limbs Come and dig me up, reach down to the roots Rip the deadness out, and plant something completely new I am alive, I will abide In the life giving blood of Christ I'm grafted in, You've k**ed my sin Now I can live, I'll live in Him I tried to tie fresh fruit To a tree that had poison all the way through It rotted and fell off, it was dead to the core It even k**ed the ground, I was worse than before You can't tie fresh fruit To a tree that has poison all the way through It will rot and will fall off and soon it will die It will even k** the ground, It's a matter of time