What exactly is the song Lemon Tree about? They play it every day on my work Musak, and I finally looked up the words. At first it seems to be just about being lonely, but why is all he can see just a lemon tree? Is there a hidden meaning?
Lyrics:
http://www.bayou.com/~jebsr/lemontre.html
Has he gone crazy from the isolation?
Zette
I always thought it was a metaphorical reference to a relationship with a beautiful woman that went bad ?
Did’ja ever hear the one about “squeeze[ing] my lemon, till the juice ran down my leg”?
Add 2 + 2 and you get rampant sexual frustration. The lemon is symbolic, you see.
(That’s my theory, and I’m sticking to it.)
:eek:
I was thinking Trini Lopez “Lemon tree, very pretty” ya know.
“nevermind”
Emily Latille.
Me, too. I’m not at all familiar with this other one. Who wrote and/or sang it?
Oops, sorry!
Thought you meant Lemon Tree by Peter, Paul & Mary.
Never mind.
Damn you, Zette! :mad: I spent the better part of a year trying to forget that song… it played almost daily on the German MTV-style channel we got in St. Petersburg and grew to be a serious annoyance.
I-so-lay-shun
Is no good for me…
I-so-layyy-shun
I don’t want to
Sit on the lemon tree
You will pay for this. Oh yes, you will pay.
I don’t remember the name of the artist or group that did it, but they were some twee British band, it seems. The lyrics were pretty simple, just about sitting around and being bored, the last verse about finding something new to hold his interest and the jealousy it might provoke. Sounds like a bad relationship song to me.
Of course, if you follow the link provided so graciously by Zette, whom I shall forevermore refer to as Zette Who Fucks With My Mind, we’ll see that this particular song is by Fools Garden.
Thanks. I thought “Fools Garden” was a subtitle. I mean, come on… trees, gardens… it makes a certain amount of sense.
And as for Led Zeppelin’s lemons, they stole the line from Robert Johnson.
I am glad to see I am not the only one who was thinking the other Lemon tree song.
Lemon Tree, very pretty
and the Lemon flower is sweet
But the fruit of the poor lemon
Is impossible to eat.
HUGS!
Ed Asner’s Nubby
Olentzero, it’s just sad to see you beg like that. No matter how much you grovel, I’m still taken. Sorry! 
How does THIS part grab ya’?
I wonder how, I wonder why
Yesterday you told me 'bout the blue blue sky
And all that I can see is just a yellow lemon tree
I’m turning my head up and down
I’m turning, turning, turning, turning, turning around
And all that I can see is just another lemon tree
Is it possible that Zette’s song is referring to the PP&M song? The PP&M song was released in 1962 - perhaps the person who wrote the other song had grown up with it.
In the PP&M song the lemon tree represents the inevitable pain and loss that comes from loving someone (as the author saw it). In the Fool’s Garden song, it sounds like he may have lost his lover, so maybe the interpretation is that he can’t see the happiness of love (blue sky) only the pain (lemon tree).
FWIW, I think Fools Garden are Germans. Hence, I wouldn’t look for too much symolicism (sp?) - zey wurr probablee djust trrrraaaaayink too rrrrime zee wurds 