Where You Been?

Freckled days in fog
Springtime faces on
The candor of these heights, I swear
A clear night when the view's gone

If the clouds could talk
We'd hear them babbling
But the conversation goes like the rain
Down from here, baby

If the trees could walk, I'd be their legs
With my fingers in the soil bed
You forgot that canopy above your head
You never listened when the clouds said

And you might get frightened
Of the jagged rocks
And you might get scared
Of that sudden stop
Forget your caution
Forget your tact
A mile up, so don't come back

Stay clear of the heights; you won't fall down
But the sky's gonna ask you, "Where you been?"
Stay clear of the heights; you won't fall down
But the sky's gonna ask you, "Where you been?"
Stay clear of the heights; you won't fall down
But the sky's gonna ask you, "Where you been?"
Where you been, little ash tree? Little sapling,
Where you been?
Where you been?
Where you been?

If the birds could talk
They'd never say my name
But yours they'd hold in tongue
To mutter it like new slang

Stay out to walk, little sapling
The talk's been drying up
The conversation slows, mama, till it fades
But the rain's just warming up

And you won't forget
All their jagged teeth
A-warn of the heights
It's the fall you see

Stay clear of the heights; you won't fall down
But the sky's gonna ask you, "Where you been?"
Stay clear of the heights; you won't fall down
But the sky's gonna ask you, "Where you been?"
Stay clear of the heights; you won't fall down
But the sky's gonna ask you, "Where you been?"
Where you been, little ash tree? Little sapling,
Where you been?
Where you been?
Where you been?

You still get frightened
Still see the rocks
Still afraid
Of that sudden stop

Stay clear of the heights; you won't fall down
But the sky's gonna ask you, "Where you been?"
Stay clear of the heights, you won't fall down
But the sky's gonna ask you, "Where you been?"
Stay clear of the heights, you won't fall down
But the sky's gonna ask you, "Where you been?"
Where you been, little ash tree? Little sapling,
Where you been?
Where you been?
Where have you been?

Oh girl, where you been?
Girl, where you been?
Where you been, where you been, where you been now, girl?
(Where you been?)
It's all the same, all the same, all the same now, girl
(Where you been?)
A mile high off the rocks, looking down at the world
(Where you been?)
Jagged rocks smile up, but the sky shouts
"Girl, where you been?"
A mile high off the rocks, looking down at the world
(Where you been?)
The jagged rocks smile up, but the sky shouts
"Girl, where you been?"