Name: Tree
Duration: P00H02M55S
Description: Composed in my teens, in the Summer between school and university, this song is about diving inside a tree, in particular a eucalyptus in bushland of Junortoun, land of the Dja Dja Wurrung. Here's a later recording of it from our 6th solo CD Djinn (2008) on my former French label Prikosnovénie, until I revisit a simpler acoustic version.

Tree

from Lula - songs from girlhood by Louisa John-Krol

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Composed in my teens, in the Summer between school and university, this song is about diving inside a tree, in particular a eucalyptus in bushland of Junortoun, land of the Dja Dja Wurrung. Here's a later recording of it from our 6th solo CD Djinn (2008) on my former French label Prikosnovénie, until I revisit a simpler acoustic version.

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If there’s only one thing who knows how to move me
it’s grey-blue-green, and it lies inside the Tree!
As the years have shown us, we’ll go too far down
into the green light, to a space of our own.

Sly tree, you know me: I’ll have you … ! I can’t say:

How many shadows could I hold?
And ages span with my life, being trees,
in the still breathing of their leaves -
Oh an’ when the light falls, could I travel
where the sun goes? - sinking down into the Tree.

Feel the darkness moving, in her slow cooling
when the rain is slipping down, down, you can
hear the wood-knot sigh

There are oceans in here, creeping over me
with their infinitely blue-green hands!
Lines … slowly, drink of me too ... ! Then tell me:

How many shadows ... etc (repeat chorus, ibid)

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from Lula - songs from girlhood, released March 26, 2024
Lyrics, Melody: Louise John, circa 1983 - 84
Vocals, acoustic Guitar, Mandolin: Louisa John-Krol (nie John), circa 2007
Tambourine, Peruvian Shakers, Shekere, Triangle, other Percussion, Bass, Elemental effects and Voice of Old Man Tree: Harry Williamson
Produced with & engineered by Harry Williamson, Spring Studio

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Louisa is an Australian singer, composer, writer & faery storyteller who has released many albums of ethereal music on indie labels, primarily in France. She's completing a fantasy series, The Elderbrook Chronicles, with a soundtrack.

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