[Intro]
Mhmm, uh, listen
[Verse 1: Unknown T]
The streets always brackin’, I can never show weakness
Fresh off the M charge, rah, I beat it
Always kept a straight face, I never showed ’em …
[Intro: Dave East]
[?] your eyes
Hoffa
Morning comes I’ll be gone [?]
Swervo
La Musica de Harry Fraud
Pablo
[Verse 1: Dave East]
Niggas don’t want me to go off (Go off)
Yola on us, got the blow …
[Chorus: The Game & Jay Rock]
Blood money or die, Blood money or die
I put my life on the line, I put my life on the line
For the love of the …
I bounce to the beat of my own drum
I’m a wow in a world full of ho-hum
I’m a wild young lady, but you know ‘sum?
I’d rather be at home with …
[Intro]
Ghosty
Mhmm, listen
[Chorus: Unknown T]
Man down, man down, now we gotta get equal
Put a foot on it fast, Vin Diesel
Grrr, grab the machine, bro
Run on the grass, let’s boot some people
If …
Are you, are you
Coming to the tree
Where they strung up a man
They say murdered three.1
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it seem
If we met at midnight
In the hanging tree.2
Are you, are you
Coming to the tree
Where the dead man called out
For his love to flee.3
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it seem
If we met at midnight
In the hanging tree.
Are you, are you
Coming to the tree
Where I told you to run,
So we’d both be free.4
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it seem
If we met at midnight
In the hanging tree.
Are you, are you
Coming to the tree
Wear a necklace of rope,5
Side by side6 with me.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it seem
If we met at midnight
In the hanging tree.
Are you, are you
Coming to the tree
Where I told you to run,
So we’d both be free.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it seem
If we met at midnight
In the hanging tree
Are you, are you
Coming to the tree
Where they strung up a man
They say murdered three.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it seem
If we met at midnight
In the hanging tree.
Are you, are you
Coming to the tree
Where the dead man called out
For his love to flee.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it seem
If we met at midnight
In the hanging tree.7
This haunting tune of “The Hanging Tree” originally written by Suzanne Collins for her Hunger Games book series invokes imagery comparable to lynching trees, such as those white supremacists commonly used to hang African-Americans in the United States.
If someone is unfortunate enough to meet someone else in the hanging tree, both of them are probably dead already.
A man being hung might make a desperate cry to his lover to run away, lest she also be hanged.
Each verse of this song has a minor lyrical change. In this verse, there is a sense of all-or-nothing desperation, a need to escape the hanging tree’s fatal wrath. This part can also be interpreted as “death sets us free”. In other words, are you coming to the hanging tree, where you will be hung and set free. You can see the play on words here – one’s knowledge that he or she will be hung, and yet this will set them free.
“Necklace of rope” refers to a noose.
“Side by side” typically invokes a positive image of companionship, but in this case, the phase conjures imagery of two bodies swinging lifelessly next to one another.
The song ends with an eerie chorus of voices and horn instruments that cause listeners to fear the idea of the hanging tree.
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