Cherry Tree - 10,000 Maniacs

Over your shoulder

Please don’t mind me

If my eyes have fallen

Onto your magazine

I’ve been watching and wondering

Why your face is changing

With every line you read

All those lines and circles, to me, a mystery

Eve pull down the apple and give taste to me

If she would be wonderful

But my pride is in the way

I cannot read to save my life

I’m so ashamed to say

I live in silence

Afraid to speak

Of my life of darkness

Because i cannot read

All those lines and circles, to me, a mystery

Eve pull down the apple and give taste to me

If she could it would be wonderful

Then i wouldn’t need someone else’s eyes

To see what’s in front of me

No one guiding me

It makes me humble

To be so green

At what every kid can do

When he learns a to z

All those lines and circles

Just frighten me and i fear that i’ll be trampled

If you don’t reach for me

Before i run i’ll have to take a fall

And then pick myself up, so slowly

I’ll devour every one of those

Books in the tower of knowledge