The Orchard
The Orchard Lyrics & Chords
My friend, the sun is sinking low and it’s time for us to go
and leave the apples and the wasps to sleep alone once more.
We can come back tomorrow, the trees will be here.
We’ve got a lot to say and if it takes all day I don’t care.
And if you find your way out of the apple orchard won’t you let me know.
It doesn’t seem real it’s summer time and the trees decline my offer
to stay and chat for awhile and share an apple.
And was it yesterday sitting here in the shade with you
with sticky chins and silly grins and an apple.
And if you find your way out of the apple orchard won’t you let me know.
Dear world here’s my letter. I wanted you to know.
They say I’m doing better now that the drugs have taken hold.
But all the places I used to go to, I can’t go there anymore.
I guess I just miss the orchard and I wanted you to know.
Runnin’ through the alleyways, sleepin’ on the sidewalks- you can’t get home.
I will never change. I will always be the same.
Etched in my mind, the image of an apple and you.
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by Sean Tierney
September 23, 2007
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Prasanna K said
Presumably, there are some sub-texts here that I cannot understand. It seems to refer to some drugs and mental illness and the cure being worse than the disease.
Perhaps there are cultural connotations that I cannot appreciate?
Sean Tierney said
Prasanna-
yes, this may not translate well across cultures. I wrote the song in ’95 imagining what it must be like for my uncle who was diagnosed that year with Schizophrenia. The drugs referred to in the song are the anti-psychotics that bring people back from their manic states and restore their “normalcy.”
In a twist of irony I went through my own brush w/ mental illness in 2001 and spent a year on a cocktail of various anti-psychotics and experienced first-hand what I had written about 6yrs earlier. I eventually weened myself off the medication and recorded that song and now 5yrs later I feel like someone who was able to visit a blackhole and return safely. There’s a great book called “An Unquiet Mind” that does an incredible job of describing the same sentiment – she underwent lithium treatment and lamented over her inability to “visit the rings of saturn” as she called them in her manic episodes.
anyways, that’s the backstory on the song.
sean
Prateek Dayal
said
Lovely song …. beautiful lyrics and with the backstory …. I have fallen in love with it.
There is a song called “downtown” from the movie “Girl Interrupted” which I love playing sometimes when I am feeling low. As someone having lots of mood swings, that was one movie I could really relate to and feel good after watching . I am not sure if you have seen it ….
Must add that I loved the guitar work in the song …. it was very well done !
Mr. chaotix ||aka sumit pillai|| said
Pretty gud!
Goli Goli said
Hey, this is lovely guitar. I really loved it. Hope you post some more. :)
Arun Raja said
It is good to hear some variety rather than the same Indian and Pakistani songs. Sean you must invite other friends of yours to come and sing here. We will get to hear some good music and singing and such healthy discussions rather than the pornography that is uploaded in popular sites in the video format.
Philip Kumar said
Sean,
Really very nice to hear these musics……. I love it….
Ananthakrishnan Gopal said
I like the feel of the song. Very nice content too.
Prasanna K said
Heard it again after a long time…. It had some resemblance to some song of Jethro Tull, the ending. Anyway long time since I heard that either ;-)….
Nice once again!
Tariq Mehmood said
Describiing the internal situations thorugh music instruments is difficult. but in this this song u have done ur job with full devotion so i apreciate you. v nice,