A Tale Of Two Trees Lyrics

I dreamed I saw two family trees

They grew from very different seeds

One stood tall with flowered crowns

And one was bent and bitter

The bitter tree bore sour fruit

That made the people eating do

Wickedness upon the earth

Until they grew to love it

The flowered tree put out its leaves

Which perfumed faintly that bitter breeze

The bent tree's branches shook like snakes

And did their best to kill it

But up the sweetness rose again

Like children rise from water cleansed and

Though the thorns tore at their flesh

They would not stop their singing

Well ages came and ages went

And it seemed the good tree's strength was spent

While the bitter tree kept sprouting strong

And choking out its fragrance

Till one day evil's wicked limbs

Entangled all the hopes of men

And struck that holy heartwood down

And felled the mighty timber

The crooked fingers of that tree

Took hold of earth and made it bleed

And most forgot what goodness was

Or where to go to find it

And holiness decayed to dust

The spinning world gave way to lust

And justice cracked like splintered wood

The world lay in confusion

A tree is known by the fruit it bears

And every day we plant ourselves

In one of two families

In one of these two family trees

But no one saw the twist to come

The prophets of the stump of God

Were killed like fools and all ignored

But underneath the soil

A tender Word beneath the roots

Uncurled until a little shoot

Unfurled into the poisoned air

To raise the ancient family

To stir the dormant seed of faith

And water withered hearts awake

To die upon that bitter tree

And uproot it forever

And one day soon we'll see his face

David's branch will clear away

The stubble where the wicked grew

And Jesus will make all things new