Time in a Tree
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Time in a Tree by Raleigh Ritchie
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Raleigh RitchieTime in a Tree Lyrics
[Chorus]
I just want time in a tree
I need a place just for me
Somewhere that I can be free
Keep the faith and just be
What you'll be
[Verse 1]
I guess rules are there to break
But I make mistakes like they were handed on a plate
When I try to leave sometimes, I'm standing in the way
I'm on the edge of crying all the time, ‘cause I can't human
Right
[Verse 2]
What a state
I get wound up, from the ground up
And I don't know why
Turn the sound up, drown the noise out
Swallow (Woah), Don't cry
Got an anxious heart, and it's stone made
Can't take paper or heartbreak
Did Billy Joel have self esteem?
Maybe Vienna wouldn't wait for me
[Chorus]
I just want time in a tree
I need a place just for me
Somewhere that I can be free
Keep the faith and just be
What you'll be
[Verse 3]
Do you ever feel like, you could live a real life?
Like everybody else in the real world, you could be a real girl?
You could be a wizard, or you could be in NASA, you could write fiction, you could tame raptors
Most days I struggle and I get snappy
Fuck all that, I just wanna be happy
[Verse 4]
Swimming against the current
Am I wrong?
Can you show me a warrant?
Honestly, I'm a bomb
Abhorrent
I'm on it, I get it, I've got it
I wanna be 10 again, just me and Sonic
And nobody telling me I should be more than I am
Back when I had a plan
[Chorus]
I, I just want time in a tree
I need a place just for me (For me)
Somewhere that I can be free (Can be free)
Keep the faith and just be (Just be)
What you'll be
[Bridge]
I've seen things that I never should have seen
Said too many things I didn't mean
Hurt myself too many times to count
I need to let it out, and just release
Been lying to myself too long
Been trying by myself too long
I can't relax, I'm too distracted
I can't hack it, hmm
I'm needy, greedy
Love me, feed me
Let's be a family
It'll take a village
To make a man of me
So why couldn't you love me?
It's all I need
[Chorus]
I just want time in a tree
I need a place just for me
Somewhere that I can be free
Keep the faith and just be
What you'll be
Time in a Tree Q&A
Who wrote Time in a Tree's ?
Time in a Tree was written by Raleigh Ritchie.
Who produced Time in a Tree's ?
Time in a Tree was produced by GRADES.
When did Raleigh Ritchie release Time in a Tree?
Raleigh Ritchie released Time in a Tree on Thu Aug 02 2018.
What did Raleigh Ritchie say about "Time in a Tree"?
Raleigh Ritchie told The Line of Best Fit,
“Time In A Tree” is about needing some peace. Some respite, some time away from your own mind. The ways that you can get in your own way on the way to those things. It’s about the fear of not being deserving of happiness, or that you’re not doing enough to...
What does the lift represent in the music video?
Raleigh Ritchie told Complex,
The lift in the video represents the different landmarks of your life, maybe even your whole life. Sometimes you might want nothing more than to be a 7-year-old again—or maybe you’re afraid to grow up; it all just seemed so simple back then. But what if you could take...
What inspired this song?
It was like a really isolated session. I think it was February 2018. And I just started therapy. I went to therapy when I was about 19, had a really bad experience. So this was a really big thing for me to feel brave enough, I guess, to go back and talk about stuff, and start to explore why I felt h...
What was the songwriting process like?
It’s kind of weird, in that this song was written over two days. It was finished over two days. So the first day, I wrote the verses, and we had a version of it, that sonically sounded quite different. We washed it out a little bit more, so it sort of flows a bit more like that. But it kind of sound...
How did you get into music?
I started that at school, by just writing in notebooks. I didn’t really do any work at school. I either slept, or I just wrote things. I just wrote things in exercise books. I didn’t know what they were. I didn’t know if they were poems, or songs, or diary entries of some kinds. I don’t really know....