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Counting Crows - Hanging Tree

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Album: Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings
Released: 2008

Hanging Tree Lyrics

She brings her friends so we wont have to be alone
Fear I might lose my composure without warning
I am a child of fire I am a lion I have desires
And I was born inside the sun this morning

[Chorus]
This dizzy life of mine keeps hanging me up all the time
This dizzy life is just a Hanging Tree
This dizzy life of mine keeps hanging me up all the time
This dizzy life is just a hanging tree

They say good evening when they don't know what to say
They say good morning when they wish you would go home

You open windows and you wait for someone warm to come inside and then freeze to death alone

[Chorus]

She calls a waitress when its time for her to go
And I know everyone is eventually leaving
I got a pair of wings for my birthday baby and I will fall down through the sun to see you mine

[Chorus]

For me, for me, for me [Repeated]

This dizzy life is just a hanging tree
This dizzy life is just a hanging tree for me

This dizzy life is just a hanging tree for me
For me, for me, for me [Repeated]

This dizzy life is just a hanging tree for me

Writer/s: ADAM DURITZ, DANIEL VICKREY, CHARLES GILLINGHAM, JAMES BOGIOS, DAVID IMMERGLUCK, DAVID BRYSON, MILLARD POWERS
Publisher: IMAGEM U.S. LLC
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Written by frontman Adam Duritz and guitarist Dan Vickrey, this is the second track from the band's fifth studio album.

According to Duritz, the lyrics have a dual meaning: they both chronicle the angst that he felt after losing his grandmother, and they also describe the way that we all drift away from others on an everyday basis to the point where it no longer seems noticeable.

Just like several other songs on the same album, like "Sundays" and "Insignificant," the lyrics contain imagery pertaining to the Greek myth of Icarus: "I got a pair of wings for my birthday and I’ll fall down through the sun this evening," is just an example.

The discordant sound heard at the very end of the song was made by tossing a harmonica into some piano wires.

Duritz once said that he would have much rather have had either this or "When I Dream of Michelangelo" be the lead single off of the album, as they better represent the album thematically, as opposed to "You Can't Count On Me." (thanks, Alec Thorp - Yorktown Heights, NY, for above 4)