In the town of the street   where I keep a parking place for me to sleep   I wake up look around    Something’s changed and something’s frayed the city sound   Walk outside watch the trees   and their whispering a message to me      They say “follow the sound of peace   Return to the road where you used to sleep   In seconds that last for many years   sounds will fade to an itch inside your ear”      As I climb to the top    of my telling tree I see the city stop   I call out I need some help   I am stuck in a tree and nobody can hear me yell   I give up, sink back down   to my branch and I block out the city sound      Singing “follow the sound of peace   Return to the road where you used to sleep   In seconds that turn to many years   sounds will fade to an itch inside your ear”      And a leaf has fallen down   It’s blowing all over town   It’s looking for a home to feel comfortably sound   But the buses and the cabs blow the leaf into the crowd it loses coloring    Afraid and decayed the leaf rests in dismay    only to be joined by a million more the same   getting raked up in the crowd      Then I hear an angel sing   She is singing a faint sweet melody   I tune her in tune my thoughts out   She is far from where I stand but still I shout   “Come to me set me free   I am stuck in a tree and my city’s turned on me"      She sings “follow the sound of peace   return to the road where you used to sleep   In seconds that turn to many years   Your city sound was that itch inside your ear”      Inside my ear   My city sound was that itch inside my ear