On my toes for life’s twists and turns Orange comes, what have I learned? Every branch lets go its robes of flame Still I want to hold you just the same But my child, you’re not green at all You have grown into a girl of fall Gold and orange in your hair and soul Changing right before me, beautiful Right now I’m loving fall The orange and yellow of it all Leaves and memories blowing round My love for you fills up the ground I’m making room where leaves have flown For all your blossoms still unknown The warmth of orange stays with me When no more leaves are on this tree You were springtime once to me Tender green on every tree Every year another shade Another piece of who you’d be was made Now the branches cannot choose What they keep and what they lose Love was never meant to freeze It learns to open up its hands like trees Right now I’m loving fall The orange and yellow of it all Leaves and memories blowing round My love for you fills up the ground I’m making room where leaves have flown For all your blossoms still unknown The warmth of orange stays with me When no more leaves are on this tree Winter’s white will come and stay Quieting these shorter days But somewhere past what I can see You’ll be growing your own spring Every season still to come Every shadow, every sun Every color life will bring Will become part of everything So when your own leaves start to turn And life gives lessons you must learn May you hold each season dear Even when the change feels near Right now I’m loving fall The orange and yellow of it all Leaves and memories blowing round My love for you fills up the ground I’m making room where leaves have flown For all your blossoms still unknown The warmth of orange stays with me When no more leaves are on this tree Let’s hold the beauty of it all My little girl, my child of fall Flame by flame and year by year Every season brought us here Orange glowing through it all My little girl My child of fall
