Jayber Crow - Song of the Jack Pine lyrics

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Jayber Crow - Song of the Jack Pine lyrics

Chucked across the forest floor, the remnants of what came before, the refuse of a recent history. Limbs and leaves are piling up, the clutter of the underbrush is choking out this weak and feeble tree. A crown, my God, 'cause I can barely breathe Flowerless and never green, the shade that falls on all beneath, the darkness is my thick and heavy fate. So much else has seeded here, their taller trunks are much too near, the soil has given all there is to take. A crown, my God, 'cause I could die in wait. So I pray for lightning striking quick, the beauty of a forest lit to sacrifice the shadows of the past. If those fast and feral flames can crack the sealing cones I've made and scatter seeds atop the smold'ring ash. A crown, my God, I want another chance. Torch the trunks—burning boughs the only heat, and all black now— to purge the ground and make it clean and cold; The only form of purity is the ash of all they used to be, a new life means the d**h of something old. A new life means the d**h of something old. I am asking for to burn I am asking for to burn Roots and petals to dust will settle, where all things come in turn.