Lyrics

If that old house had enough love to go around
Would I wake up now at night to every sound?
The well is deep, and I feel like a little girl crying in my sleep

Mama had the babies and daddy worked for pay
They were so damn tired their love just slipped away
The well is deep, and I feel like a little girl crying in my sleep
Oh, fever tree, how you carried me

The fever tree has a sacrificial limb
It pulls the bad from the soil and it drags it all in
And while the rest of that tree grows yellow green and strong
That limb grows dark holding what doesn’t belong
Oh, every family grows a fever tree

In the pictures we’re all smiling, perfect as the day
But I’m taking all the bad inside and hiding it away
Oh, the well is deep

See me walking down the street, you know something’s wrong
The way I hang by head, the way my eyes follow the ground
On the outside I keep smiling, inside I’m that little girl
Hiding in my fever tree feeling separate from the world
Oh, the well is deep, I’m still crying in my sleep
The well is deep