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By Pages:   1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about The Trees (page 6/ 8) ------ performed by Rush Great song | Reviewer: MJS | 8/21/07 I have to say I have always loved this song and always felt that it talked about the simple fact that some people have more ability than others and that forcing an equality hurts everyone. If we ever get to a point where someone proposes a law to protect stupid and lazy people from job discrimination, tape some headphones to their head and play this song loud (repeat as needed). I have occasionally worried that there might have been a racist message in here, but know enough about Rush to feel this was very unlikely. I am not sure where other reviewers get the idea that Maples need shade. I have seen them growing in full sun many places, including my front yard. Actually, I think they tolerate shade better than some trees rather than requiring it. usa canada oaks and maples | Reviewer: mike jud blain | 8/19/07 you can interprate it like you want but since i am a french canadian oaks is usa maples is canada and fill in with what you want ( make your brain works a little bit you will see) and the trees are kept equal by ........ MY OPINION | Reviewer: Trevor | 8/18/07 It's important to realize that not only can the maples survive in the shqade they would die without it, which proves that the maples aren't trying to get sun because they are icapable of be happy in the shade but simply because they're jelious of the inharent fetures of the Oak of which the oak has no control. Therefore despizing the oaks for their size is senseless. However when you consider that the nobile law doesn't benifit the maples but is baad for the oaks it is clear that the oaks are not the instigators but the victims, and that the maples only claimed oppression because they wanted revenge on the oaks becaused they perceived the oaks as being happier. And it's true that the oaks where happier before the nobile law but not because they had more sun like you might think but because they where content with there circumstances, and so because maples thrive in shade, and oaks in sun hense both trees had equal potentiaal for happines. Therefore the moral or the song is that life can be perceved by different people (or trees) diffrent ways therefore it's foolish to despise someone because you think there better off then you because more than likly there not and they just have a better attitude, or a more optimistic veiw of life. And even if they are more fortunate than you, they still might be responible for what you do have. i mean seriously... | Reviewer: Nic | 7/23/07 I definately disagree with Joe...The song has a lot more to do with Loraxian ecology than one would think. Dont just scratch the surface Joe, dig a little deeper-jeesh! meaning | Reviewer: Pat | 6/16/07 This song has absolutely nothing to do with ecology or race. Your teacher's theory smacks of racism in my opinion, implying that all whites in South Africa are superior "oaks" and all blacks are "maples." This song has absolutely nothing to do with race and wasn't meant to be construed that way. Rush's point is that there are oaks, men of ability, of all races, who are cut down by forced equality of collectivism of any form, even the US graduated income tax. The men of little ability, of all races, who cannot ensure their own survival, decide to get together and cut down the oaks, so all survive, but at the expense of the oaks' height, or level of achievement. If you take two jumps ahead and you think that it is innovative capitalists and not workers who are really responsible for mankind's progress, then you can see why this song is a call for laissez-faire capitalism, for which lyricist Peart was an advocate. Meaning | Reviewer: Tim | 6/7/07 This song is about Quebec trying to gain independence from Canada The Trees | Reviewer: Tommy | 5/30/07 I am just discovering the genius of Rush, since I didnt have the privelage of growing up in the 70's and 80's. I find that when listening to them its great to think of all the possible interpretations of the song. Then somewhere along the road, something clicked in my mind and i just decided to stop looking at the lyrics of every song as some philosophical view on the world, but solely as for what it is; music. I found that this is what makes Rush wonderful to listen to. Granted, the intelligence behind the music puts the band on a pedestal, but that is not what makes Rush so great; its Geddy, Neil, and Alex who make the music flow. Not intelligent lyrics. That's what I think Geddy Meant when he said there was no message behind the lyrics. hatchet, axe and saw | Reviewer: michael w | 5/13/07 The whole crux of the song is the final lines. "For they passed a noble law, And the trees are all kept equal By hatchet, axe, and saw." The point is that any efforts to create equality in an arbitrary characteristic (here it is in height) where it does not exist in nature has a cost. That cost is that neither party to the "noble law" gets what they deserve in a true and natural sense. Both sides see the injustice whether they march in the streets or not, and society suffers for it. Churchill said "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." In "The Trees" it is clear that neither tree wins when equality is maintained with a hatchet, axe or saw. Maples and Oaks | Reviewer: Adjective | 5/10/07 Ever since I first bought the album Hemispheres I'd thought this was a specific allegory. Maples are Canadian and Oaks are the Brits. I'd tend to agree with those who think that the Ayn Rand objectivism is what Peart intended, but I think that one might also possibly interpret the message as a warning to the Oaks in a French Revolution, reign of terror kind of way. Probably what makes these great lyrics is that they work in meter and rhythm and can mean many different things depending on what the listener brings to the song. Feminism? | Reviewer: Noah | 5/5/07 But wrap you head around this Paul, who really cares about Feminism, except Feminists, and they are generally hated anyway Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages:   1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8