Apple Blossom - Esperanza Spalding

[00:01.49]Apple Blossom - Esperanza Spalding
[00:19.53]Mother of the Spring
[00:22.4]Her branches cradle slipping
[00:24.46]Buds yawning open
[00:28.72]Welcome by an aging man
[00:35.01]He greets them fondly
[00:43.73]With memories of when
[00:46.56]Her bows were arms that
[00:48.73]Held him as a younger man
[00:52.84]Together they would marvel at
[00:58.75]The birth of Springtime
[01:07.81]Now he stands beneath
[01:10.4]The apple blossoms
[01:13.34]Every year where they
[01:15.9]Used to go walking
[01:21.28]And he tells Her about
[01:23.83]The summer and the autumn
[01:26.15]The winter in his heart
[01:28.520004]And their Apple blossoms
[01:39.369995]In summer they would dream
[01:42.33]Of being three and smile
[01:45.82]Imagining how round
[01:47.990005]As the apples on the ground
[01:52.41]That fall
[01:54.7]They loved and waited
[02:03.87]But winter came too soon
[02:07.08]Before their seed could bloom
[02:10.49]She wilted from the chill
[02:14.05]And all felt cold and still
[02:29.35]Now he stands beneath
[02:32.06]The apple blossoms
[02:33.72]Every year where they
[02:37.04001]Use to go walking
[02:42.76]And he tells Her about
[02:45.3]The summer and the autumn
[02:47.77]The winter in his heart
[02:49.86]And their Apple blossoms
[03:00.44]As he opened the
[03:01.72]Earth to receive her
[03:04.95]He prayed heaven would
[03:06.69]Be waiting to meet her
[03:09.86]He kisses her cold cheek goodbye
[03:14.76]But he couldn't surrender
[03:16.6]The hope they had sired
[03:19.72]So in her fallen hands
[03:22.86]He placed a seed from
[03:26.67]Their favorite tree
[03:28.98]And he laid her to rest
[03:32.26]Beneath the blanket of white
[03:34.89]Til they'd meet again
[03:37.43]In the springtime
[03:50.95]Now he stands beneath
[03:53.63]The apple blossoms
[03:56.3]Every year where they
[03:59.29001]Used to go walking
[04:09.18]And from above
[04:11.13]She's always watching
[04:15.16]But her body lies beneath
[04:18.99]The apple blossoms
[04:25.8]Apple blossoms
[04:28.73]Blossom
[04:30.51]Blossom
[04:34.4]Blossom
[04:44.57]Mother of the Spring
[04:47.56]Her branches cradle slipping buds
[04:50.55]Slowly (they) unopen
[04:54.27]'Welcome by an aging man'
[04:59.33002]He greets them fondly
[05:08.75]Fondly
[05:17.68]Her branches cradle slipping buds