最近听了一首歌：The giving tree# LeisureTime - 读书听歌看电影
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"The Giving Tree"
All the leaves on the Giving Tree have fallen
No shade to crawl in underneath
I've got scars from a pocket knife
Where you carved your heart into me
If all you wanted was love
Why would you use me up
Cut me down, build a boat, and sail away
When all I wanted to be was your giving tree
Settle down, build a home, and make you happy?
I lie in the dead of night and I wonder
Whose covers you're between
And it's sad laying in his bed
You feel hollow, so you crawl home back to me
If all you wanted was love
Why would you use me up
Cut me down, build a boat, and sail away
When all I wanted to be was your giving tree
Settle down, build a home, and make you happy?
Well, I see a trail that starts
A line of broken hearts behind you
That lead you back to me
The once sad and lonely fool
With nothing left but roots to show, oh
If all you wanted was love
Why would you use me up
Cut me down, build a boat, and sail away
When all I wanted to be was your giving tree
Settle down, build a home, and make you happy?
Settle down, build a home, and make you happy?
前阵子开车听广播听到这首歌，有点讶异，回家后找了youtube，果然是the giving
tree。最早知道这个故事是源于喜欢Shel Silverstein，他既是一位诗人，又是一位作
曲家，他还是一位歌者和漫画家。最早知道他的一部作品是“The missing piece”。
他的作品很简单，却富含哲理，值得一读再读。The giving tree也是一部耐人寻味的
作品，不同的人能读出不同的味道。曾经读给我自己听，后来读给女儿听，当时女儿还
小，很多道理她还不懂，可是她也很喜欢。
我个人感觉这首歌的风格和书的风格太不同了，书里用简单的漫画，简单的语句，简单
的道理叙述了不简单的人生，让人可以安静地思考无声无息的奉献，而歌曲所表达的却
是一种激烈的感情，期待对方听到的一种呐喊，也许那只是一夜就会燃尽的爱。
All the leaves on the Giving Tree have fallen
No shade to crawl in underneath
I've got scars from a pocket knife
Where you carved your heart into me
If all you wanted was love
Why would you use me up
Cut me down, build a boat, and sail away
When all I wanted to be was your giving tree
Settle down, build a home, and make you happy?
I lie in the dead of night and I wonder
Whose covers you're between
And it's sad laying in his bed
You feel hollow, so you crawl home back to me
If all you wanted was love
Why would you use me up
Cut me down, build a boat, and sail away
When all I wanted to be was your giving tree
Settle down, build a home, and make you happy?
Well, I see a trail that starts
A line of broken hearts behind you
That lead you back to me
The once sad and lonely fool
With nothing left but roots to show, oh
If all you wanted was love
Why would you use me up
Cut me down, build a boat, and sail away
When all I wanted to be was your giving tree
Settle down, build a home, and make you happy?
Settle down, build a home, and make you happy?
前阵子开车听广播听到这首歌，有点讶异，回家后找了youtube，果然是the giving
tree。最早知道这个故事是源于喜欢Shel Silverstein，他既是一位诗人，又是一位作
曲家，他还是一位歌者和漫画家。最早知道他的一部作品是“The missing piece”。
他的作品很简单，却富含哲理，值得一读再读。The giving tree也是一部耐人寻味的
作品，不同的人能读出不同的味道。曾经读给我自己听，后来读给女儿听，当时女儿还
小，很多道理她还不懂，可是她也很喜欢。
我个人感觉这首歌的风格和书的风格太不同了，书里用简单的漫画，简单的语句，简单
的道理叙述了不简单的人生，让人可以安静地思考无声无息的奉献，而歌曲所表达的却
是一种激烈的感情，期待对方听到的一种呐喊，也许那只是一夜就会燃尽的爱。
