The Dreaming Tree (song)
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| “The Dreaming Tree” | |||||
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| Song by Dave Matthews Band | |||||
| Album | Before These Crowded Streets | ||||
| Released | April 28, 1998 | ||||
| Recorded | The Plant Studios, Sausalito, CA & Electric Lady Studios, New York, NY | ||||
| Genre | Rock | ||||
| Length | 8:48 | ||||
| Label | RCA | ||||
| Writer | David J. Matthews | ||||
| Composer | Dave Matthews Band | ||||
| Producer | Steve Lillywhite | ||||
| Before These Crowded Streets track listing | |||||
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"The Dreaming Tree" is a song by Dave Matthews Band on their album Before These Crowded Streets. The song is about one who questions faith through the subject of death. The "dreaming tree" referred to in the song is a utopia in the subject's mind where everything in the world is perfect. The song features Greg Howard on the Chapman Stick. A 29-second studio jam is heard at the end of the track. The song is in 7/8 time.
The song was written by the band's bassist, Stefan Lessard, in mourning the death of his daughter.
The album's title comes from the third line in the song:
Standing here,
The old man said to me,
Long before these crowded streets,
Here stood my dreaming tree.
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