Are you, are you
Coming to the tree?
They strung up a man
They say who murdered three.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met at midnight
In the hanging tree.
Are you, are you
Coming to the tree?
Where dead man called out
For his love to flee.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
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 be
If we met at midnight
In the hanging tree.
Are you, are you
Coming to the tree?
[Original line:] Wear a necklace of rope,
[Line modified for effect:] Wear a necklace
of hope,
Side by side with me.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
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 be
If we met at midnight
In the hanging tree.
Are you, are you
Coming to the tree?
They strung up a man
They say who murdered three.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met at midnight
In the hanging tree.
Are you, are you
Coming to the tree?
Where dead man called out
For his love to flee.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met at midnight
In the hanging tree.
The song Hanging Tree is from the movie The Hunger
Games which is my favorite movie ever. I fell in love with this song at the
first time I heard Katniss sings it. It is so attractive and so appropriate for
the movie when many people were killed and everyone are hopeless. Katniss sang
this song when she was making a short video with her friend. They are using the
video to tell what President Snow doing is not protect his people but for his
own power. They want people to know how violence and selfish Snow is and follow
District 13 can give people real freedom.
The song tells a man was hanged to death on this
tree. He was a man who murdered 3 people. He attracts his lover to die with him
so that they can both be free. In the lyrics, the line: “They say who murdered
three” is very important. Because what “they” said is not true. The man is
innocent and was killed wrong. For me, I think this song is a metaphor for
telling people in Panaem that President Snow is lying, Katniss is a real leader
to give people freedom. “They” in the song is Snow. People in District 13 tell
people to gather together and revolt, let the inhuman Hunger Games stop. When Katniss sing it, it does not only has commercial influence but also tell the real feeling of Katniss. She was made to be Mocking Jay. The missing for family and lover, the feeling of impotence, the unbending for present situation... She is tired enough and also want to die like the man on the tree but she can't. People around her were all controlled so she can only keep fighting.
This is not only
lyrics but also poem. There are repeat sentences and rhyme. Like the last word
of the 3rd line for each stanza: three,
flee, free, they all have the same last sound. Every stanza has “ Are you, are
you, coming to the tree?” “Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be”
and “ If we met at mid night, in the hanging tree.” This are all symbol for it
to be a poetry.
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