What I want from you
Is empty your head
They say be true
Don't stain your bed
We do what we need to be free
And it leans on me
Like a rootless tree
What I want from us
Is empty our minds
We fake a fuss
And fracture the times
We go blind
When we've needed to see
And it leans on me
Like a rootless...
So fuck you, fuck you, fuck you
And all we've been through
I said leave it, leave it, leave it
It's nothing to you
And if you hate me, hate me, hate me
Then hate me so good that you can let me out
Let me out of this hell when you're around
Let me out, let me out,
Let me out of this hell when you're around
Let me out, let me out
What I want from this
Is learn to let go
No not of you
Of all that's been told
Killers reinvent and believe
And this leans on me
Like a rootless...
So fuck you, fuck you, fuck you
And all we've been through
I said leave it, leave it, leave it,
It's nothing to you
And if you hate me, hate me , hate me,
Then hate me so good that you can let me out, let me out, let me out
Let me out of this hell when you're around
And fuck you, fuck you, fuck you
And all we've been through
I said leave it, leave it, leave it
It's nothing to you
And if you hate me, hate me, hate me
Then hate me so good that you can let me out
Let me out, let me out, let me out,
Hell when you're around...(Repeat 4x)
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Review about Rootless Tree Meaning | Reviewer: Laura | 11/25/09
What this song means to me.
I feel like its, the process after you break up with someone you love. After you break up, you have this internal guilt, and the person who still loves you clings on to you, and you end up still being in each others lives, and its torturing you, because she cant let go of you, and your guilt is to heavy to leave her. So your just praying for her to hate you and let you go.
The rootless tree is the guilt.
so true to breakup | Reviewer: ny | 11/12/09
its about breakup obviously but its not limited to singer being a sufferer on the breakup. He wants to breakup and no matter what, it oughts to be the end. The consequence can be big and troublesome but it cant just lean on me forever. Just say, fuck you and get rid of the rootless problem.
So true to me too...
Analysis of Rootless Tree | Reviewer: Jason | 8/1/09
This song is obviously about a breakup. The speaker is conflicted, because he doesn't want his significant other to leave, but knows that she just doesn't love him. He wants the truth, but has difficulty dealing with the consequences.
It's a sad and frustrating time when one discovers that the person that they have cared about no longer feels the same.
Meanings and stuff... | Reviewer: Robbie K | 7/29/09
Anybody else think that he may have been singing about the breakdown of his relationship with Lisa Hannigan when he wrote this?
I have a feeling (just based on my own instinct though..) that he is/was deeply in love with her, but it wasn't reciprocated..hence the "It's hell when you are around" lyric.
Can't have been easy to work with someone professionally that you have unrequainted feelings for!
p.s. this song is about jerking off as a means to get over a past relationship... the verses that talk about a rootless tree are about post ejaculation. that whole "process" is a metaphor for emptying yourself of feelings of your ex. the sexual tensions that are tied to those feelings, and what not.
I am the one that submitted these lyrics. Below the lyrics it says "Thanks to Kari for submitting the lyrics." but I want to know how one the reviewers knew my last name as well. "good work Kari Fernandez for submitting the lyrics" because that IS my last name...I just want to know how they knew that.
great song | Reviewer: Anonymous | 7/2/09
I think this song portrays a love hate relationship, something that some of us may have experience. You ever hate someone so much, yet your still in love with them? He keeps asking to let him out of it.
Being only sixteen I can't say that I've heard so many great songs or that I've heard many artists with raw talent, because I know that I haven't experienced a whole lot of music and the great talent in the industry yet. Damien Rice though, he is amazing. I can't compare him to anyone and I cannot even begin to write how much of a lyrical and musical insparation he is. Like I said, I cannot clain to know all in this industry but I do know that Damien is such a unique, talented artist and deserves so much praise for his work.
This song is so powerful. I was shocked to hear him swear but I think that makes this song just add a slight more emotional edge to it.
when i first heard him sing 'fuck you' i was quite surprised. though i'm not partial to swearing, it suits the rawness and passion of this song so much, i don't think it be quite the same without it.
well when i heard it, i was jst stunned.....i was being introduced to this song by my frnd n he used to listen it always so i gave a try n honestly i m able to feel that guy from inside through this song....i can feel the pain of that guy now more better..(music brought me more close to him...lolzz)
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