| | The Trees Lyrics Artist(Band):Rush
There is trouble with the trees, For the maples want more sunlight And the oaks ignore their pleas. The trouble with the maples, (And they're quite convinced they're right) They say the oaks are just too lofty And they grab up all the light. But the oaks can't help their feelings If they like the way they're made. And they wonder why the maples Can't be happy in their shade. There was trouble in the forest, And the creatures all have fled, As the maples scream "Oppression!" And the oaks just shake their heads So the maples formed a union And demanded equal rights. "The oaks are just too greedy; We will make them give us light." Now there's no more oak oppression, For they passed a noble law, And the trees are all kept equal By hatchet, axe, and saw. If you find some error in The Trees Lyrics, would you please submit your corrections to me? Thank You. Thanks to timaster@gmail.com for submitting the lyrics. Review about The Trees Could it be? | Reviewer: Morbryn | 10/31/09 Somehow I got something completely different out of the song. I never even considered the song was about communism. The trees, much like people, were fighting amongst themselves. While the other creatures of the forest fled, the trees were so busy fighting, they were not aware of the threat from a common enemy. Humans with hatchets, axes and saws. see what you want | Reviewer: Anonymous | 10/20/09 people are insane. neal had no real purpose in the lyrics, as others have pointed out. it is only you, the listener, that makes it so. this reminds me of an old Far Side cartoon. In the drawing, a car was turned upside down and a dog was straddling the rear axle and howling. The caption stated something like "A dog's favorite dream". Obviously, this was about a dog catching a car. That didn't stop the author from getting tons of hate mail (the most he received for any cartoon), cancellations of his syndication, etc., because some people saw in it the dog have sex with the car. This song could be about dreadful communism. It could be about racism. It could be about injustice. Or, it could just be a comical song. What you make of it is up to you. definitely communism. | Reviewer: Anonymous | 10/16/09 So they wrote a song about trees behaving like people. And what kind of people keep society "equal" by the humanistic equivalent of "hatchet, axe, and saw"? Well, that would be communists. This song is about communism. And yes, Peart IS a huge Rand fan - an author from Soviet Russia whose mission in life was to tell people about how evil the soviet govt was. Political song. | Reviewer: Anonymous | 10/4/09 I believe this song does have a deeper political meaning. Neil Peart is a huge Ayn Rand fan and these lyrics parallel roughly her message in her novel Atlas Shrugged. The Rich (the oaks) are punished for their success in the name of fairness (all kept equal by hatchet, axe, and saw). By the way 2112 is completely based off of another Ayn Rand novel Anthem. This is stated right on the cover. Just a song | Reviewer: Anonymous | 9/17/09 This is just that, it is a song about a goofy concept (trees being people like). Why do so many people have a hard time accepting the fact that a band can write a song for the sake of writing a song, not all songs need to have some deep meaning to them........This is a great song about maple trees being jealous of Oak trees, nothing more..... Just plain stupid | Reviewer: Anonymous | 9/3/09 Straight from the author himself "No. It was just a flash. I was working on an entirely different thing when I saw a cartoon picture of these trees carrying on like fools. I thought, 'What if trees acted like people?' So I saw it as a cartoon really, and wrote it that way. I think that's the image that it conjures up to a listener or a reader. A very simple statement." There it is, so get over it. trees...is rush so subtle | Reviewer: Anonymous | 7/16/09 I have read most of the comments, and something in the song has slip by the listeners. "Oppression!" How more obivious can they spell it. Quotation marks and exclamation point. It's the accusations and perceptions of being oppressed which is part of the human emotion. Is it healthy or destructive? great band! excuse me | Reviewer: ted | 7/8/09 is this not about the united states style of government which is the Republic. and are not the hatchet, axe and saw by which all things are kept equal the 3 branches of that government? judicial, executive and legislative.... thailand express | Reviewer: Midnight oil | 6/9/09 I think some of you need to jump on the train to Bangkok and chill. You're looking too deep, just read what babinator posted directly from a Neil quote. Sorry, but sometimes a song is just that... a song. Pert as a poet | Reviewer: gtrip1 | 6/1/09 If you go back and look at the nearly 40 years that this band has been making great music, you will find that Mr.Peart is an existentialist with views boardering on the Post-modern. Almost all of the songs in Rush's catalogue have everything to do with the human condition. His style of writting is a lot more interesting than just screaming about how life just sucks and there is no purpose for our existence. Review By Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Review the song The Trees The area is only for review, if you want to submit the lyrics or the corrections of the lyrics, please click the link at the end of the lyrics.  Download "Rush" Music | |
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