10,000 Maniacs - Cherry Tree

Over your shoulder, please don`t mind me if my eyes have 
fallen onto your magazine for I`ve been watching and wondering why 
your face is changing with every line you read. All those lines 
and circles, to me, a mystery. Eve pull down the apple and give 
taste to me. If she would be wonderful, but my pride is in the 
way. I cannot read to save my life, I`m so ashamed to say. 
I live in silence, afraid to speak of my life of 
darkness because I cannot read. For all those lines and circles, 
to me, a mystery. Eve pull down the apple and give taste to me. 
If she could it would be wonderful. Then I wouldn`t need someone 
else`s eyes to see what`s in front of me. No one guiding me. 
It makes me humble to be so green at what every kid can 
do when he learns A to Z, but all those lines and circles just 
frighten me and I fear that I`ll be trampled if you don`t reach 
for me. Before I run I`ll have to take a fall. And then pick 
myself up, so slowly I`ll devour every one of those books in the 
Tower of Knowledge.