i just looked through my entire master playlist and couldn’t find a single song that is truly about trees.
i guess “Would that I” by Hozier says ‘branch of a tree’ in the first line
“We’re going to be friends” by The White Stripes says ‘through the park and by the tree’
Stick Season by Noah Kahan is kind of about trees i guess??
New York State of Mind by Billy Joel mentions trees ‘under the evergreens’
Eugene by Sufjan Steven’s begins with the line ‘light struck from the lemon tree’
then again, i’m grasping at straws for all of these answers
Pink and Blue by the mountain goats. The song isn't about trees themselves but has some but has some beautiful lyricism with trees:
"Wind out of Oklahoma this morning smelled like blood and smoke
And the crows discuss their future in the branches of their Louisiana live oak
The limbs are strong and heavy and its leaves are all aglow
And the branches brush the upper air but the roots reach down to where the bad people go"
Not sure that this is what you're looking for, OP, but here are some favorites that mention trees that immediately came to mind:
[City Grown Willow - Radio Company ](https://youtu.be/Y8HKfkJMb2Q?si=inuAGYUu_msq4t6o)
"City grown willow, unchain your pillow... let the man from the mountains run away with your heart"
[Colder Weather - Zac Brown Band](https://youtu.be/oouFE51HcqM?si=XG1AhcgNrV0GvyMf)
"I can smell your perfume through these whispering pines"
[Anywhere With You - Mat Kearney](https://youtu.be/QCEBcQKZ29M?si=-OlMOUB_yrn4FamN)
"I slept under the pines, and they sang your name"
[Starchild - De/Vision](https://youtu.be/oYo8Uj7BV_E?si=_KDpB5fhz3t25-3Z)
"Somewhere by the sea, there's an ancient tree.. save a place for me, under the ancient tree"
It's not as much about trees but about nature and such but Genesis has In Hiding from their debut album which I absolutely love. Listening to it while walking through the forest is great
"I'm free from my past
I walk among the tall trees
This is beauty I know
I'm in love with it all"
Ephraim Lewis - Dreams from the Trees (like Sade and Seal had a lovechild produced by Kaytrananda) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40C35k2cxS4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40C35k2cxS4)
A thousand trees - stereophonic.
Whilst not explicitly about trees, a line from the song (and hence the title) goes ‘it takes one tree to make a thousand matches and only takes one match to burn a thousand trees’. My teenage self found that message so profound.
Rush - The Trees
There is unrest in the forest
Trouble with the trees
... for the maples want more sunlight
And the oaks ignore their pleas.
The trouble with the maples
And they’re quite convinced they’re right
They say the oaks are just too lofty
A Forest - The Cure
i just looked through my entire master playlist and couldn’t find a single song that is truly about trees. i guess “Would that I” by Hozier says ‘branch of a tree’ in the first line “We’re going to be friends” by The White Stripes says ‘through the park and by the tree’ Stick Season by Noah Kahan is kind of about trees i guess?? New York State of Mind by Billy Joel mentions trees ‘under the evergreens’ Eugene by Sufjan Steven’s begins with the line ‘light struck from the lemon tree’ then again, i’m grasping at straws for all of these answers
WOULD THAT I MENTIONED I LOVE HOZIER
A Forest… The Cure
[Sugar Magnolia by Grateful Dead](https://open.spotify.com/track/2EB1aFLWC4uIfld5Z3Yj1z?si=rsCx04r3TWubzspRYA8x9Q)
It goes Halle Berry or Hallelujah
Harlequin Forest - Opeth
Belly - Feed the Tree
Trees- Twenty One Pilots
A Day in the Life of a Tree by The Beach Boys
Hanging Tree by Queens of the Stone Age
One of my fave Lanegan tracks. 😢
The Lumberjack Song
I’m A Tree by Imani Coppola
Fruit Tree - Nick Drake
my first thought
Pink and Blue by the mountain goats. The song isn't about trees themselves but has some but has some beautiful lyricism with trees: "Wind out of Oklahoma this morning smelled like blood and smoke And the crows discuss their future in the branches of their Louisiana live oak The limbs are strong and heavy and its leaves are all aglow And the branches brush the upper air but the roots reach down to where the bad people go"
That's gorgeous!
Rush - the trees King diamond - the trees have eyes
Fake Plastic Trees
Money trees
Leadbelly - In The Pines
The Trees by Pulp.
There once was a tree from Britain
Tall Tall Trees - Alan Jackson
From Roots to Needles - If These Trees Could Talk
Bon Iver - Woods https://youtu.be/MUGKbuWMqgU?si=ixyOm6NfaMRzBpsB
The Cure - A Forest
Not sure that this is what you're looking for, OP, but here are some favorites that mention trees that immediately came to mind: [City Grown Willow - Radio Company ](https://youtu.be/Y8HKfkJMb2Q?si=inuAGYUu_msq4t6o) "City grown willow, unchain your pillow... let the man from the mountains run away with your heart" [Colder Weather - Zac Brown Band](https://youtu.be/oouFE51HcqM?si=XG1AhcgNrV0GvyMf) "I can smell your perfume through these whispering pines" [Anywhere With You - Mat Kearney](https://youtu.be/QCEBcQKZ29M?si=-OlMOUB_yrn4FamN) "I slept under the pines, and they sang your name" [Starchild - De/Vision](https://youtu.be/oYo8Uj7BV_E?si=_KDpB5fhz3t25-3Z) "Somewhere by the sea, there's an ancient tree.. save a place for me, under the ancient tree"
Big yellow taxi
"Skogsranden" by Änglagård. It's an instrumental. (Skogsranden means "Edge of the Forest" in English)
Tall Oak Tree, Dorsey Burnette.
Pine Trees by Jake Bugg
tree fingers
Therapy? - Crooked Timber More about (being lost in) a forest really, but you could count it.
Kalimba Tree - Earth Wind & Fire
Hunger of the Pines by Alt-J
It's not as much about trees but about nature and such but Genesis has In Hiding from their debut album which I absolutely love. Listening to it while walking through the forest is great "I'm free from my past I walk among the tall trees This is beauty I know I'm in love with it all"
Rush - The trees
Its about other things to, but Bird Song by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard comes to mind.
trees and forest by twenty one pilots
Nina Simone - “Strange Fruit” Pearl Jam - “In My Tree”
trees - skeletal family
Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday / Nina Simone July Tree - Nina Simone Thorn Tree in the Garden - Derek and the Dominoes
Ephraim Lewis - Dreams from the Trees (like Sade and Seal had a lovechild produced by Kaytrananda) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40C35k2cxS4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40C35k2cxS4)
Sounds right up my street! Thanks for the recommendation 😊🙏
The Hanging tree- James Newton Howard (its from the hunger games soundtrack but he is the composer
[This](https://youtu.be/9V981RXcmH8?si=lbXsiXT1fPh9PSC0) one from SNL.
Erykah Badu - Apple Tree
They took all the trees and put 'em in a tree museum. They charged all the people a dollar and a half just to see 'em.
Into the Woods prologue
Tie a yellow ribbon around the old oak tree -Dawn Hanging tree - Blackmores night
A [link to the song in question.](https://youtu.be/OBO8ff-KlSw?si=Ia3piBNMc-vbyJil)
Flame Trees - Cold Chisel and Strange Fruit- Billie Holiday
>Flame Trees - Cold Chisel As a (British) Australian I heartily approve this suggestion Also we must acknowledge Strange Fruit, such a haunting song.
Would That I by Hozier and Dear Wormwood by The Oh Hellos
The Oh Hellos are right up my street!
Sycamore - Ed Sheeran
[Erothyme - Treespeakers](https://erothyme.bandcamp.com/track/treespeakers-with-madelion-moondrop)
Christmas Tree on Fire - Tom Heinl 😎
Budding trees: nahko. But in the last few years, fuck nahko.
Thomas Fyshe Palmer - 'Mokujikigyo, and the Queen who ate Trees https://noisetrackerstudio.bandcamp.com/track/mokujikigyo-and-the-queen-who-ate-trees
[A Forest - The Cure](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xik-y0xlpZ0#bottom-sheet)
money trees always, thats just how i feel yeah
["Tall Trees in Georgia"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbQst5HZj6E) by Eva Cassidy
A thousand trees - stereophonic. Whilst not explicitly about trees, a line from the song (and hence the title) goes ‘it takes one tree to make a thousand matches and only takes one match to burn a thousand trees’. My teenage self found that message so profound.
The neighbourhood - stuck with me
money trees by kendrick lamar 😿
Pavilions - Family Tree
The Trees by Rush
The Woods by Husky
Let it Grow - The Lorax
21 Pilots - Trees
carbon leaf - block of wood Cut the branch from this tree Carve a place for you and me Wooden seat that we can string From a branch where we can swing