Tanglewood Tree Songtext
von Playing Rapunzel

Love is a tanglewood tree
In a bower of green
In a forest at dawn
Fair while the mockingbird sings
But she soon lifts her wings
And the music is gone

Young lovers in the tall grass
With their hearts open wide
When the red summer poppies bloom
But love is a trackless demand
And the rumour of rain
In the late afternoon

Love is an old root that creeps
Through the meadows of sleep
When the long shadow′s cast
Thin as a vagrant young vine
It encircles and twines
And it holds the heart fast


Catches dreamers in the wild wood
With the stars in their eyes
And the moon in their tousled hair
But love is a light in the sky
And an unspoken lie
And a half-whispered prayer

I'm walking down a bone-dry river
But the cool mirage runs true
I′m banking on the fables of
The far, far better things we do
I'm living for the day of reckoning
Counting down the hours
I yearn away, I burn away
I turn away the fairest flower of love

'Cause darling love is a good word in a scroll
And a cold, cold law
And the pretty and wild
When the summer is fair
In the jade hearts of men
Who nurtures the faith of a child
When nothing remains to cover her eyes


My body has a number
And my face has a name
And each day looks the same to me
But love is a voice on the wind
And the wages of sin
And a tanglewood tree