Trees

@Keeson @Keeson Hey - I thought of another theory related to the symbolic meaning of “trees.” I came upon the idea when I was listening to “Forest.”

Ok so the lyrics in “Forest” say:

“Down in the Forest we’ll sing a chorus, one that everybody knows Hands held higher, we’ll be on fire, singing songs that nobody wrote.”

Here’s my thinking:

1) Chorus is another term for worship song. 2) Tyler spent many years as a worship leader for his church (New Albany Church/Five 14). 3) The “hands held higher, we’ll be on fire” seems like it refers to people reaching up as they sing a worship song (a chorus). 4) Following this line of thinking, all the arms raised up during worship would look like a forest. 5) So the “forest” in the song probably symbolizes a big group of people raising their arms in worship.

Ok, so if Tyler’s “forest” is a group of people worshipping, I realized maybe “Trees” is referring to the same thing?

As we said before, this song is a prayer someone is saying as they stand silently. However, I think the “trees” means the person is standing silently within a group of people in the midst of worship. The person is surrounded by “trees,” but he is not singing. He’s standing silently, cowardly not singing, but he wants to hear from God. His mind and soul are reaching out for God. And he feels God’s breath, and he feels his own death as God fills him — all in the midst of worship.

It makes sense because why would standing silently in ACTUAL trees be cowardly? It wouldn’t. However, standing in the midst of people worshipping but being too shy to sing (or maybe even too shy to raise your hands) would be kind of cowardly.

And this song was written during Tyler’s time as a worship leader.

So yeah...this might be another symbolic meaning of “Trees.”