fig tree

That night when you told me How you wanted to be free I saw before me my own life in a fig tree Fruitful, green, and new But how could I choose without you Here's a life where I settle down early White picket fence close to kin With a husband that's stable and earning While I stay at home with the kids Or there's me and Michael struggling Trying to make it in art Scraping together our living With glittered and plastered hearts And I'll die here trying to make up my mind Starving in the crook of the tree of life With you I'd stay 'cause it was meant to be this way By the ocean on Alabama Point Or I can get an education And try to be the best at anything Pretending to feel important And change the world or something Here's the one where I roll on Never gathering any moss All alone on the open road Just looking for somewhere to get lost And I'll die here trying to make up my mind Starving in the crook of the tree of life With you I'd stay 'cause it was meant to be this way By the ocean on Alabama Point Gulf of Mexico on Alabama Point And I'll die here trying to make up my mind Starving in the crook of the tree of life With you I'd stay 'cause it was meant to be this way By the ocean on Alabama Point