The Lime Tree

Can't believe no one has commented on this song! brilliant. beautiful. enchanting. As far as what Trevor means... hmm. I take it, all of it, music and lyrics, as such a testament to the beauty of the relationships that make up our lives, enhance it and shape it. The love in those moments and connections. How it is the only thing that lasts, that sustains us, and carries us through loss. Rising above a dark time when (perhaps?) the temptation to get numb led you to imbibe maybe more than you know you should be...but still you needed it. you were hiding. but, still wherever that love "found you" - sought you out- you were saved by it. and, even when you still sip a bit of wine, you remember that in your darkest times, it was this love that came through. I adore the imagery in this song. he's a wonderful, talented musician (how do these humans on the planet for such a short time come to such enlightened, wise conclusions so quickly?) Amazing.

Finally, someone who has commented on it.

I was beginning to think I wrote down the lyrics by ear for no reason.

I believe it's about a love that will never end even though his physical love has passed the spiritual love will never disappear. He's hiding in the lime tree because as a tree it grows and grows towards the sky where his love is ...for some reason the rain cloud makes me think of a kind of symbolism as to make nature weep with him for his love.

The lime tree is the symbol of conjugal love, the quality, hospitality and modesty. This symbolism is to decrease/go back on Ovids narration of Philemon and Baucis, the old married couple, the nothing more desired than dying itself together, so that none of them would have to experience the death of the other one. Zeus met this desire, when death came to them, to them transformed it the two into trees; Philemon into an oak and Baucis into a lime tree.

knowing this, its easier to decipher what this song actually means its a song about intense love for a soulmate the line "i was hiding in the lime tree" is his way of saying he was waiting for his mate all along in a place where lovers lay above the city in a rain cloud is his way of relating to the story of the past lovers and their relationship with the gods the stars will still be shining when he and his lover choose to die, because they'll be together.

The lime tree is the symbol of conjugal love, the quality, hospitality and modesty. This symbolism is to decrease/go back on Ovids narration of Philemon and Baucis, the old married couple, the nothing more desired than dying itself together, so that none of them would have to experience the death of the other one. Zeus met this desire, when death came to them, to them transformed it the two into trees; Philemon into an oak and Baucis into a lime tree.

knowing this, its easier to decipher what this song actually means

its a song about intense love for a soulmate the line "i was hiding in the lime tree" is his way of saying he was waiting for his mate all along in a place where lovers lay

as the myth goes, after the gods had been rejected from every home they had visited, philemon and baucis were the only good people left in the world; the gods flooded the rest of the city leaving only the small cottage hence the line "above the city in the raincloud i poked a hole and let it drain out"

The lime tree is the symbol of conjugal love, the quality, hospitality and modesty. This symbolism is to decrease/go back on Ovids narration of Philemon and Baucis, the old married couple, the nothing more desired than dying itself together, so that none of them would have to experience the death of the other one. Zeus met this desire, when death came to them, to them transformed it the two into trees; Philemon into an oak and Baucis into a lime tree.

knowing this, its easier to decipher what this song actually means

its a song about intense love for a soulmate the line "i was hiding in the lime tree" is his way of saying he was waiting for his mate all along in a place where lovers lay

as the myth goes, after the gods had been rejected from every home they had visited, philemon and baucis were the only good people left in the world; the gods flooded the rest of the city leaving only the small cottage hence the line "above the city in the raincloud i poked a hole and let it drain out"

love this song.

Its simple. Its about finding God. ;0)

If god=love then i could see it about being finding god.

"we will last past the final round" ...I think he's saying we live on after death And parallel to the city streets....parallel and similar to life we live now Our broken crowns beneath our feet....being pure soul after we die, we're above our "broken crowns" or our old worldly minds/ ego's ...

and maybe hiding in the lime tree means he was hiding in the idea of that conjugal love asdcsgf was talking about... but was it isolating him? or is that what it took for him to finally be found?

it is about finding God.

I thing I know what is part of chorus about. When Adam sinned, he saw he was naked and ran into forest to hide, when he listened Gods steps in the evening. Its like when somebody in this time realise he is naked (that God see his sins) he runs to hide somewhere. Trevor is singing to God: it took a while you to find me, I was hiding in the lime tree (God have to find us when we are hiding).