Hollow Be My Name - Eleventh He Reaches London

I work on earth

Baron and brown

Smuggling seedlings

Something will

Grow

I watch the seeds

Turning a tree

Foreign insects

Trespass the

Leaves

I work on earth

Baron and brown

Frail and sunburnt

Unlike my

Tree

It strains away

Gathering height

Closer to God but

Further from

Me

It joined the earth

Baron and brown

Same in context

I hated its sight

I tore the limbs

Stripped off the bark

If I can’t grow here

Neither will

He

I’m allowed to grow

In the vision of God

But he’ll strip off my bark if

I grow to the

World

I’m allowed to live

As a symbol of birth

But nothing, no nothing, is

Ever, ever

Allowed

I’m allowed to grow

In the vision of God

But he’ll tear off my limbs if I

Grow to the

World

I’m allowed to curse him

If he’s the one that built me

I’m allowed to use

His fucking name in vain

I dream sleeping beneath it

I dream being its

Father

Teaching all there is to teach about the world

I’ll stretch out my

Limbs

And outgrow this fucking world

If it gets me killed then so be it

'cause

I’m tired of the world

And the world is tired of me

The tree won’t

Grow and nor the world around

I never knew that I’d destroy it all

I could

Plant a seed and grow another tree

But I’m tired, I’m tired, I’m tired