Is there something between me and the tree

Or is the tree in my head?

Isn't the tree too big to be in my head?

I fantasize that I could drink some wine

With Martin Heidegger and Willard Quine

And the conversation's intense -

It makes reference

Is there something between me and the tree

Or is the tree in my head?

Isn't the tree too big to be in my head?

This song will never be in the top forty

Unless the chart was made by Richard Rorty

And even though that doesn't make sense

It makes reference

Is there something between me and the tree

Or is the tree in my head?

Isn't the tree too big to be in my head?

Every year I send a valentine

To the philosopher [Luther Ludwig Wolfgang] Wittgenstein

And somehow it never gets sent

There's no referent

Is there something between me and the tree

Or is the tree in my head?

Isn't the tree too big to be in my head?

Hangin' with Loc and Young MC

Bustin' a move on a Fake Lady

And then we listen to the Fresh Prince:

He makes reference