Expert: Anne Dalmadge - 1/13/2005

Question
what is the song "the dreaming tree" all about? i dont understand it's meaning/interpretation of it...  

Answer
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 she's 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 certain girl's 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 dependency on someone else "help me, save me, take me back, please." But, he pretty much says everything in the song.