Hangin' Tree

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.

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

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.

originally on the desert sessions, but updated for SFTD

mark's voice is so incredible

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

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

its about a hanging tree

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.

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.

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