Gail Martin

Lyrics

Ugly Trees music and lyrics Gail Martin

That big ice storm last year
Hit the trees here pretty hard
Broken branches everywhere
Debris in every yard

But who will love the ugly trees
That suffered and survived
Who will love these wrinkled knee
These trunks split open wide

In this barren grey-brown season
At the far end of the fall
Before the first deep snows come
To throw a blanket over all

They stand alone and naked
No leaves no fruit to show
That deep inside the sap still runs
Though beauty’s been laid low

But who will love the ugly trees
That suffered and survived
Who will love these wrinkled knees
These trunks split open wide

No youthful symmetries to wave
Just the touch of wound and age
These twisted hands and calloused soles
A well-lived life’s true wage

Who will love the ugly trees
At the far end of the fall
Who will love the ugly trees
Who’ve make it through it all

That big ice storm last year
Hit the trees here pretty hard
Broken branches everywhere
Broken branches everywhere
Broken branches