Fruit Tree Lyrics

Fame is but a fruit tree, so very unsound
It can never flourish, till its stalk is in the ground
So men of fame, can never find a way
Till time has flown far from their dying day

Forgotten while you're here, remembered for a while
A much updated ruin from a much outdated style

Life is but a memory, happened long ago
Theater full of sadness, for a long forgotten show
Seems so easy, just to let it go on by
Till you stop and wonder, why you never wondered why

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

Forgotten while you're here, remembered for a while
A much updated ruin from a much outdated style

Fame is but a fruit tree, so very unsound
It can never flourish, till its stalk is in the ground
So men of fame, can never find a way
Till time has flown far from their dying day

Fruit tree, fruit tree, no-one knows you but the rain and the air
Don't you worry, they'll stand and stare when you're gone
Fruit tree, fruit tree, open your eyes to another year
They'll all know, that you were here when you're gone

Nick Drake - Fruit Tree

Dec 1991

1. Time Has Told Me
2. River Man
3. Three Hours
4. Way To Blue
5. Day Is Done
6. 'Cello Song
7. The Thoughts Of Mary Jane
8. Man In A Shed
9. Fruit Tree
10. Saturday Sun
11. Introduction
12. Hazy Jane II
13. At The Chime Of A City Clock
14. One Of These Things First
15. Hazey Jane I
16. Bryter Layter
17. Fly
18. Poor Boy
19. Northern Sky
20. Sunday
21. Pink Moon
22. Place To Be
23. Road
24. Which Will
25. Horn
26. Things Behind The Sun
27. Know
28. Parasite
29. Ride
30. Harvest Breed
31. From The Morning
32. Time Of No Reply
33. I Was Made To Love Magic
34. Joey
35. Clothes Of Sand
36. Mayfair
37. Been Smoking Too Long
38. Strange Meeting II
39. Rider On The Wheel
40. Black Eyed Dog
41. Hanging On A Star
42. Voice From The Mountain