Songs are filled with emotions, like Nick Drake’s “Fruit Tree.” They are written in the way the writer feels. The points coming from them are not obvious, but have to be listened to and felt. In this song, Drake uses a fruit tree to describe his own fame and how he is not famous and wild known, but when he is gone everyone will know him through his music. To compare Drake’s suffering, he uses a fruit tree as a metaphor “Fame is but a fruit tree” (line 1). The song starts off with it giving that a fruit tree is “So very unsound. It can never flourish till its stock is in the ground.” (2-4) This relates that fame can sometimes come and go without becoming anything. To make something out of it, a person has to be hooked in. Following that, the song states how people do not have fame until after they are gone. When …show more content…
“Forgotten while you are here, remembered for a while a much updated ruin from a much outdated style.” (9-12,(28-31) These lines are repeated twice and are the choruses of the song. Their meaning can be seen in different ways, but they do have rhyme and the end of them. After reading the song, it becomes clear that it is about himself, since songwriters write about their own life. It has the feelings of depression and it can be clearly seen through, “Safe in the womb of an everlasting night, you find the darkness can give the brightest light. Safe in your place deep in the earth, that’s when they’ll know what you were really worth.” (21-31) Fame could have been his if only he would have come out his shell and into the world he loved so much, but he found himself. “No-one knows you but the rain and the air.” (41-42) Back to using the fruit tree, rain is what it needs,