House Of Freaks - Family Tree lyrics

A wind is rising outside The house is a trembling The leaves are shivering Out in the fields where we walk The roots that support us Have built a fortress Well we grow in the breeze Like the family tree Whose seeds were planted here Well, they rise at all in my memory They do Who were they, where are they now Just faces and photographs Letters and lithographs Drunkards and barbers they were Preachers and soldiers Upon their shoulders Well, we grow in the breeze With the family tree Whose seeds were planted here Well, they rise at all in my memory They do Their houses are crumbling The wells dried up long ago Water stops flowing But this tree will always grow A wind is rising outside The branches are swaying Children are playing Between the earth and the sky Between whithered pages They lived through the ages Well, we grow in the breeze With the family tree Whose seeds were planted here Well, they rise at all in my memory They do Their houses are crumbling The wells dried up long ago Water stops flowing But this tree will always grow They grow with the family