Block of Wood

Grab your heart we need to leave
 There's no time to cry or grieve
 For the fallen family tree
 Rise above the flooding plain
 Crouching low to dark the flame
 Generations against the grain
 Up in smoke, down the drain
 If the fire, if the flood
 Burns the tree and thins the blood
 If your tears don't want to dry
 I can help you cry
 Through the night
 Through the night and day
 I can't take your pain away
 But I can help you cry
 Cut the branch from this tree
 Carve a place for you and me
 Wooden seat that we can string
 From a branch where we can swing
 We'll take this block of wood
 Carve it down, and sand it good
 When finished it will be
 Souvenir of the family tree
 And if the fire, if the flood
 Burns the tree and thins the blood
 If your tears don't want to dry
 I can help you cry
 Through the night
 Through the night and day
 I can't take your pain away
 But I can help you cry
 Through the night
 Through the night and day
 I can't take your pain away
 I can try
 But God help me please
 Come save the family tree
 My friends I broke them all
 When falling off the wall
 In the ash, I found an ember
 Something warm to help remember
 Block of wood that used to be
 A strong tall family tree
 A strong tall family tree
 Blowing in the breeze
 Cry through the night
 Through the night and day
 I can't take your pain away
 But I can help you cry
 Through the night
 Through the night and day
 I can't take your pain away
 But I can help you cry