Stems & A Green Leaf Still
Album: Praying Mantis
By: Grandpa Egg
By: Grandpa Egg
Duration
4:03
Genres
Description
Recollection of a childhood spent searching for Praying Mantids with the next-door neighbor girl.
Lyrics
[Refrain] Somewhere, passing the time until Stems with a green-leaf still Sun through a hundred eyes can reveal What lies, a world concealed When I was boy We used to wake-up early in the morning Saturdays So hot you might have drained off breakfast Before you were halfway up the road But we didn’t care We were after the one thing in life that made us truly happy At the time anyway We were searching for a Praying Mantis ☺ [Refrain] My friend and I The girl who lived next door Well we’d get lost in those fields Lost in the light of youth, innocence, discovery Sometimes we’d sink down Beneath the surface of the tall grass And uncover things about ourselves About each other Things we’d never known in our most colorful dreams [Refrain] Waifs in the woodland wet Ways we wound around in the grass to forget A world that never seemed to look much further Than that which collects on the surface We found each other there Soft summer air And nary a watchful eye to bare Save for those of the Praying Mantis
