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Hanging Tree (Counting Crows song)
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Wikipedia article
"'Hanging Tree'" is the second track on Counting Crows' 2008 album 'Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings'.
Song Meaning
Duritz has cited in interviews that the angst he felt not being around his grandmother for a long time due to frequent touring, up until her death while he was in Perth, Australia, inspired this song:
Duritz explained in an April 2008 interview the broader meaning of the song:
As with the tracks "Sundays" and "Insignificant", imagery pertaining to the Greek myth of Icarus appears in the song, specifically in the lyric: '"I got a pair of wings for my birthday and Ill fall down through the sun this evening."
Duritz reportedly preferred having either this song or "When I Dream of Michelangelo" released as the lead single, as he believed either one of those tracks better represented the album as a whole thematically, in contrast to "You Can't Count on Me".
References
Category:Counting Crows songs
Category:2008 songs
Category:Songs written by Adam Duritz
Category:Songs written by Dan Vickrey
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