Pining Away

[Verse 1]
Though a maelstrom makes you leave
Like a tree, I bend toward thee
A damsel down on bended knee
My knotty heart, she bleeds and bleeds

[Chorus]
Pining away, pining away
Pining away for you
Pining away, pining away
Pining away for you

[Verse 2]
I spied a speck within your eye
But t'was a log that made me cry
From the sawmill of my mind
A forest fell and made me blind

[Chorus]
Pining away, pining away
Pining away for you
Pining away, pining away
Pining away for you

[Verse 3]
While my roots are long displaced
I ran to where few humans race
A tumbleweed in time and space
May my footsteps leave no disgrace

[Chorus]
Pining away, pining away
Pining away for you, for you
Pining away, pining away
Pining away for you
Pining away, pining away
Pining away for you

[Verse 4]
Once her branches rose as graceful chandeliers
Her leafy crown now bows low, is hung with tears
Concentric circles mark the years
Lining the trunk as faded souvenirs