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"