Marika Hackman
Marika Hackman
Marika Hackman
Marika Hackman
Marika Hackman
Marika Hackman
Marika Hackman
Marika Hackman
Marika Hackman
Marika Hackman
Marika Hackman
Marika Hackman
Marika Hackman
Marika Hackman
Marika Hackman
Marika Hackman is singing from a poetic perspective of being a corpse hanging from an apple tree. Duality lies within the death of the person swinging from a branch when compared to the life bringing force that apples represent.
It is a metaphor for her music career where people just want her to pla...
[Verse 1]
Here I hang from the apple tree
Oh, take a little bite, take a bite for me
The pain, it keeps me sane
For I am more than a taste
[Verse 2]
The taste in the mouths of the starving crowds
All pulling at the leaves, pulling off to me
In feet first, a savage thirst
Oh, leave me be, leave me be
[Chorus]
Leave me be, I’m tired
And I feel so damn cold
Hold me like a child
‘Cause I feel so damn old
I got so damn old
[Verse 3]
Here I hang for the seated crowd
To look upon my eyes, look upon my mouth
And say, “We were there that day
I saw her face, heard a sound”
[Verse 4]
But now I sit where there used to be
A quiet little scene of an apple tree
White roots and balanced fruit
The winter glowed on her leaves
[Chorus]
Hold me like a child
‘Cause I feel so damn cold
Bind me like I’m wild
‘Cause I feel so damn old
I got so damn old
And I feel so damn old
I got so damn old
Apple Tree was written by Marika Hackman.
Apple Tree was produced by Charlie Andrew.
Marika Hackman released Apple Tree on Fri Jun 02 2017.
In an interview with Coup de Main, Hackman said that the song was about her music career:
it’s a reflection of how I was feeling within the industry at that time. As a musician I was getting tired. I was feeling almost like I wanted to jack it all in. It was making me feel old in that sense, I had...