The king and queen of many things But not the cuckoo's colored wings Had laughed at me and everything Around the land that lay so barren I still wonder if they're laughin' In the dark with folded hands and Swollen choreographed speeches Read the cards and we will teach you How to see through looking glass and How to fight a thousand deaths and Come out sober And blame you for nothing I headed for the mountains and I Walked up to the great green trees but They just stared right back at me Said I could stay here through my pain Could learn to make my tears the rain For branches that would still remain You must be tough to be a tree To take the claws and winter breeze You love him more than you will know You'll fight a war and kill some men You'll take the long way back to him We could move out west and buy a piano We can move out west and buy a piano