Willow is the seventh track from Tamino’s third album “Every Dawn’s A Mountain”.
Before premiering the song on KCRW radio, Tamino said the following about the meaning behind the song title:
“Well, the paradox of the willow tree is that when it dies and loses all its vines, its trunk gets to see th...
[Verse 1]
Night falls upon the yard like a shade
The willow is weak, the bed has been made
Carried astray are the last of its leaves
Like the last of her voice, tied to the breeze
[Chorus]
Cradled in silence
She will release me
Willingly blinded
She tempts the day in
I don't even fight it
I'm losing her now
[Verse 2]
Night falls within, it bleeds through the bark
Its shadow contains a piece of my heart
But I'm drawing the light into the shade
I'm watching the vines float away
Float away
Float away
[Chorus]
Cradled in silence
She will release me
Willingly blinded
She will reveal me
The sun's out of hiding
It's coming to greet me
I can't even fight it
The curtain is down
Willow was written by Tamino.
Willow was produced by Eric Heigle & Pieterjan Maertens & Tamino.