Expert: Anne Dalmadge - 2/5/2004

Question
Right now, I'm working on a paper analyzing the song "Dreaming Tree."  I've got most of it finished, but I was hoping to find some other interpretations of the song to compare to mine.  Don't worry, you'll get full credit for what answers you might have for me.  Thanks a lot!

Answer
First of all, great song choice I LOVE Dreaming Tree, it doesn't get a lot of recognition, but it's definitly my favorite. As for interpretation, I think its about change. Like when he says "no matter what the world, you'll always be my baby" and "Mommy come quick the dreaming tree has died" But also the first verse, "Funny how progress takes away, what forever took to find." going back to the Dreaming tree dying, aka, change, I think the Dreaming Tree symbolizes youth, memories, and forever holding onto those memories. There is also a part with the girl "from the start, she knew she had made, easy up till then, for sure she'd make the grade, adorers came in hordes, to lay down in her wake, gave it all she had, but treasures slowly faded, now shes falling hard, feels the falling dark, how did this come apart? She drinks to fill it up, a smile of sweetest flowers, wilted so and sours, black tears stain the cheeks, that once so admired." He talks about change in a certin girls life, going from good to bad. then he talks about dependency "oh, if I had the strength to, I would leave you all, to your own devices, would you not fall, can you take pity, this thing I do." he's talking about someone either being dependent on him, or thinking or feeling the need to have someone be dependent on him. Then dependecy on someone else "help me, save me, take me back, please." But, he pretty much says everything in the song, I think it's more of a poem than a song, it's easier to get it's message from it. Those are my thoughts, good luck.