She lives with an orange tree
The girl that does yoga
She picks the dead ones from the ground
When we come over
Like a morning sun
Oh and she's always dressed in white
She's like an angel
She burns my eyes
Oh and she moves like a little girl
And she gets splashed in rain
And turns away
and leaves me standing
When a child is born in the countryside, the umbilical cord may be saved and dried and planted in the earth, with a pit from a fruit tree placed on top of the cord. The tree that grows then belongs to the child. Trees in Haiti are thus thought to protect children and are sometimes referred to as the guardian angel of the child. However, if the tree should die or grow in a deformed manner, that would be considered an evil omen.
