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The Family Tree

from The Road Not Taken by Adam Beattie

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Let’s say she’s the leaves that fall from the floor
The heavenly heartwood at the tree’s very core
Let’s say she’s roots that bide in the ground
Or the bark that protects all year round
In one sense gone and part of the air
In another preserved as just one more layer
But now in peace and forever free
But always part of the family tree

As each new bud adds weight to it’s branch
It makes grandparents from uncles and aunts
As each branch thickens, like a trunk it becomes
The back and the feet, the heart and the lungs
To a new branch who will choose its time
To point to the sun and start it’s climb
Or grow to strength or cease to be
Or start it’s own family tree

As the crown grows broader and further apart
It will always remain, at one at heart
We’ll be snowed under by our own blossom
And when one falls it will help to soften
And with each season a part will die
And fall to the ground where grandmother lies
And so she will know so I ask of thee
To take good care of the family tree

I once saw a tree split right open
It’s bark in tact but it’s heartwood broken
I looked above to see its head still strong
But at what cost and for how long?
How long will it be before the leaves will know
the heartache felt down below?
So for the buds and the blossom
Make a stand with me
To love and be loyal to the family tree

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from The Road Not Taken, released May 11, 2016

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Adam Beattie Scotland, UK

Scottish singer songwriter Adam Beattie has released 5 studio albums. His latest album ‘Somewhere Round The Bend’ received critical acclaim, "Uplifting reveries of love" - MOJO Magazine, "5/5 Master of powerful narratives” - RnR MAGAZINE, “8/10 “Stirring folk balladry” - THE LINE OF BEST FIT, “A very fine record, full of great moments” - RODDY HART, BBC RADIO SCOTLAND ... more

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