Lyrics for Hangin' Tree as interpreted by ikari

Hangin' Tree Lyrics
Would you like a way home
I bleed my own

Round the hangin tree
Swaying in the breeze
In the summer sun
As we two are one
Swaying

Can you see under my thumb
There you are

Round the hangin tree
Swaying in the breeze
In the summer sun
As we two are one
Swaying

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brainless
03-08-2003

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a wired, but cool song. I LOVE this song. It's a little bit depressing, but also something else. I cant explain it

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gueveralives
03-17-2003

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simple, he and his friend were hung because they were different, "I bleed my own" being his own person, an the chorus explains he's hanging of course, so there you go,

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uncletommy
03-31-2003

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originally on the desert sessions, but updated for SFTD

mark's voice is so incredible

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gueveralives
04-07-2003

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the desert sessions is another band, why switch songs for different bands? you're retarded

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Elin
04-14-2003

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Josh Homme played in dessert sessions mr "I know everything".

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uncletommy
04-19-2003

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dont ask me why they rerecorded it for SFTD gueveralives. i didnt tell them to, the desert sessions version is great

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Niam
10-06-2004

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its about a hanging tree

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jvs24
10-15-2004

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it sounds like a love song to me. "in the summer sun as we two are one"

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gangreenous
12-18-2004

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i've been on a few queen's songs now and the only constant is gueveralives hanging shit on uncletommy. Gueveralives, the desert sessions aren't a band but more of a philosophy of getting a bunch of people together and seeing what happens. Mark Lanigan was on a lot of them but the recording's fairly primative. Josh and Mark obviously like this song and re-did it for SFTD. That simple, stop being such a dick

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Imtrying84
03-27-2005

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well i think that noise at the start of the song is a lighter, so my guess is that it's about someone lighting up or cooking up something. Then you have the "I bleed my own" which could be a reference to a needle. The chorus is when him and the drug become one and all of his worries are gone. He's porbably on the "nod" so hes amazed that his lighters in his hand. haha thats what i got from it.

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Imtrying84
03-27-2005

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well i think that noise at the start of the song is a lighter, so my guess is that it's about someone lighting up or cooking up something. Then you have the "I bleed my own" which could be a reference to a needle. The chorus is when him and the drug become one and all of his worries are gone. He's porbably on the "nod" so hes amazed that his lighters in his hand. haha thats what i got from it.

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DRybes
04-07-2005

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Tension Head also starts with a lighter.

this song really could mean anything i guess, but the feeling and depth in it (like most lanegan vocals) just scream at me to pull what's probably more meaning than originally intended from the words. it's the idea that someone dependent on you is going to try to take a shot at things themself... but you know (or feel, or hope) they won't be able to make it without your help, and you're angry at them for it, but you decide to let go anyway. "hung" is an expression that can be used to describe stagnation or standstills. the situation we all hate the most is waiting.

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silver_headed_monk
06-22-2005

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i love how this song mixes the romance of summer, the breeze with hanging, dearth and dependence. perhaps thats the meaning?

it also sounds like its a piss take of romance, which i wouldnt put past them.

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Marquez
12-04-2005

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I think this song has a lot to do with sex.

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Cubensis
12-06-2005

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firstly, guevaralives, why do you have to start a fight on every damn song?! get a life! secondly, guevara does not live, and thirdly, this song kicks ass. i just like the feel of it, you know, like its really choppy and yet kind of rolling, like driving really fast through the desert in a car thats on fire.... or something... eh, thats just my interpretation - the songs about a flaming car racing through the desert. hahahahaha! well, twenty-three skidoo, everyone!

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Qotsa-in-my-blood
07-30-2006

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Now this song...I would have to ask the band members about because it could be anything now I have read other theories...I used to think it was just a dark, depressing song about a hanging but it could be mixed with sex and drugs....

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michaeldoyle
11-05-2006

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I love how the way the vocals are sung gives the impression of a swaying tree.

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Qotsa-in-my-blood
11-19-2006

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Yeah a swaying tree, I agree...odd.

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Smackhead Pedo
01-02-2007

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Maybe when he was young he spent his holidays loving under a tree. He's not been hanged because that wouldn't involve going round the tree.

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Minx2
01-12-2007

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I think the song is just a song about a seeing a person whose been hung. Like "Strangefruit". Where are they from? Does anyone know?

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Foodforweak
04-20-2007

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best fcking love song of the old Kyuss/ QotSA roundup... teenage love gone bad for the first time..............

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trumbone
01-31-2008

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This song is beautiful. The beginning riff is awesome, and allows for it to build into absolute greatness.

Two people were hung, and they're swaying there in the breeze, their bodies no longer aware of where they are or even that they are existent. But the general feeling of togetherness is their in view by other people.

Is this song partly 5/4?

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egosleep
03-19-2008

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I think this song is about a Hanging Tree. i Initially thought it was just about a large tree that seemed to hang down, but i later realized its about a tree used to hang people. "would you like a a way home" sounds like a coax someone could be using to get them into a car.
"as we two are one, swaying" could be two people united in death.
"can you see under my thumb, there you are" could possibly refer to the fact that whoever is DOING the hanging has complete control over that person. It sounds like the chorus of the song is almost a poetic rationalization of a horrible thing that is happening to two people, and the lyrics in the versus are references to whoever is hanging them.

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votrebeaureve
05-13-2008

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I think pretty much all QOTSA songs are about sex, drugs, or both.

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Relle
07-01-2008

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I think the song has something to do with slavery cuz if you were in love with a slave and you were ahite they hung you too

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