Happy in the Shade?

If I could have rewritten the lyrics, these are what they would read:

I think that once,

the maple could have been happy in the shade,

Allowing the oak to simply soak up the light

While watching it grow out,

up and beyond her reach.

And, it's not that she ever screamed, "oppression,"

As simply stopped wanting to compete

There is most certainly trouble with the trees

Some force has shaken them at the roots

(at the very base of their inevitability)

Or, so the maple alongside

is urged by the oak to believe

The maple can't help the depth of feelings

they simply result from the way she was made

But she knows no happiness in such a sun-deprived forest

(wishes no world shared by an oak)

where nil but a slow-death-come from shade

The maple can't help the depth of feelings

they simply result from the way she was made

And it is surely no testament to the good in the oak

(antiquated forest-fantasy banished underground)

but more a nod to way the maple behaves