ON A TREE
INSIDE A HEART
A DULL BOY SCOUT KNIFE
TOOK HALF A DAY
TO CARVE
MICHAEL LOVES
CAROLINE
HE JUST TURNED TEN
AND SHE WAS NINE
THE SUMMER SHE
TURNED SWEET SIXTEEN
HE FINALLY FOUND
HIS NERVE
AND TOOK HER OUT
TO SEE
AND WHAT SHE SAW
THROUGH HER TEARS
WAS SEVEN HEARTS
FOR SEVEN YEARS
AND THEY STOOD
BENEATH THE
TREE OF HEARTS
AND THEY WATCHED
THEIR FEELINGS GROW
THEN THEY SWORE
THEY'D NEVER BE APART
TRUE LOVE
LEFT IT'S MARK
ON THE TREE OF HEARTS
THE TENTH TIME
HE CARVED
THEIR NAMES
CAROLINE'S DAD
WAS GIVING HER AWAY
THERE BENEATH
THE SHELTER OF
THE TREE OF HEARTS
THEY PLEDGED
THEIR LOVE
AND THEN FOUR HEARTS
DOWN THE ROW
THEY BROUGHT
THE FIRST OF
TWO BORN HOME
AND THEY PLAYED
BENEATH THE
TREE OF HEARTS
AND THEY WATCHED
THEIR CHILDREN GROW
AND THEY SWORE
THEY'D NEVER BE APART
TRUE LOVE
LEFT IT'S MARK
ON THE TREE OF HEARTS
AND IN THE BLINKING
OF AN EYE
SOMEHOW FIFTY-SEVEN
HEARTS FLEW BY
FIFTY-EIGHT FIFTY-NINE
SIXTY MISSED CAROLINE
AT SIXTY-ONE
MICHAEL KNEW
THERE WOULDN'T BE
A SIXTY-TWO
NOW THEY LAY
BENEATH
THE TREE OF HEARTS
YOU CAN WATCH
THEIR LOVE STILL GROW
WHERE THEY SWORE
THEY'D NEVER BE APART
TRUE LOVE
LEFT IT'S MARK
ON THE TREE
OF HEARTS