The song lyrics were written by the band Van Halen, as they were asked to write a song for the 1979 movie "Over the Edge" starring Matt Dillon. The movie (and the lyrics, although more obliquely) are about bored, rebellious youth with nothing better to do than get into trouble. If you see the movie, these lyrics will make more sense. It's a great movie if you grew up in the 70s/80s you'll definitely remember some of these characters from your own life. Fun fact, after writing the song, Van Halen decided not to let the movie use it.
If the earth was a willow
And you were one too
- would earth be weeping
So gentle and true?
If I was the garden
Whereas you could grow
-would you hand me your brAnches
And grant me your love?
In between the lines of your story-flowing through
The pages of a book so well prepared the
Words leave more than ashes from your pencil
When it speaks of tiny stories that happened
Through these years
I swear that your present reality-disillusioned
Obscurity? -will gently wipe away the tears
Of wasted seeds
How Can we go through this
- with wounded wing before we learned how to fly
How can I control desires
- when desires burns on a chilly autumn Night?
I will try and make you imagine;
The aura where they stand
Is filled with little secrets
- as written in the sand
Naked as a child at birth
A question in disguise
An oasis in a lonely desert
Where lonely unknown lands lie
From here and into infinity
- humble and timeless
Philosophy-you gently wept away the tears
Of wasted seeds
All the days that have left me
And the species I have seen
Ahead days will follow
- it was only a dream
Though my garden is growing
Under skies out of blue,
And it changes Each season
Both in colours and in truth
You should know that a willow
- a weeping bed's pillow-
Until all days are through
The rain that fall on your branches,
Just yearning for a source to feed it's primal need
Can make your beauty blossom from within
With flowers blowing in the wind-and in seasons to follow...
And you were one too
- would earth be weeping
So gentle and true?
If I was the garden
Whereas you could grow
-would you hand me your brAnches
And grant me your love?
In between the lines of your story-flowing through
The pages of a book so well prepared the
Words leave more than ashes from your pencil
When it speaks of tiny stories that happened
Through these years
I swear that your present reality-disillusioned
Obscurity? -will gently wipe away the tears
Of wasted seeds
How Can we go through this
- with wounded wing before we learned how to fly
How can I control desires
- when desires burns on a chilly autumn Night?
I will try and make you imagine;
The aura where they stand
Is filled with little secrets
- as written in the sand
Naked as a child at birth
A question in disguise
An oasis in a lonely desert
Where lonely unknown lands lie
From here and into infinity
- humble and timeless
Philosophy-you gently wept away the tears
Of wasted seeds
All the days that have left me
And the species I have seen
Ahead days will follow
- it was only a dream
Though my garden is growing
Under skies out of blue,
And it changes Each season
Both in colours and in truth
You should know that a willow
- a weeping bed's pillow-
Until all days are through
The rain that fall on your branches,
Just yearning for a source to feed it's primal need
Can make your beauty blossom from within
With flowers blowing in the wind-and in seasons to follow...
Lyrics submitted by 2006200720082009
Weeping Willow Lyrics as written by William Ward Rose Marks
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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