Today ReMi Said...(A Tree)

[Verse] There's a tree out in the back field One side's dead and the other is green If you climb up in the middle of that tree You can see a little bit of everything [Verse 2] You can see the whole town in the distance With the city sign and the grain mill And the old high school that we all went to And the football field [Chorus] Everybody in this town's got a story Most of 'em don't have a happy endin' But it's a place where everybody knows me And I can be whoever I wanna be in A tree [Verse 3] My house is across the field there With the rickety porch and broken steps Where I wrote my name in the fresh concrete When I was only six [Verse 4] And there's a pasture down yonder Where I learned to drive a stick That old fence line's got a hole in it Where we used to hop it and [Chorus] Everybody in this town's got a story Most of 'em don't have a happy endin' But it's a place where everybody knows me And I can be whoever I wanna be in A tree