Lyric discussion by mister care-too-much 

That is so cool about William possibly being a resurrected Isaiah! Ah, man. It's also interesting to think, that, if that's true, an additional reason for the Forest Queen to help the Rake is to 'repay' him for 'giving her her son'...

Anyway, it's the song of the slightly crazy mother figure that wants her son all to herself...

Question though: Is she literally a tree, or does she have a human form, or is it all a metaphor?

Oh, and isn't it kind of funny she says 'Brightest shine, it's my shine', and she [Shara Worden] is in a band called My Brightest Diamond?

"Question though: Is she literally a tree, or does she have a human form, or is it all a metaphor?"

She isn't a tree. She's all of the trees. She's the spirit of the forest. Most folk tales will have her in some sort of human form when interacting with mortals, but her introduction is both metaphor and literal. She -is- the forest.

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