"Hike Like a Tree" genre: Psychedelic
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	Requiring more than 4 months of studio time over a 7 year period, thisfavorite involves continually evolving, very subtle synth tones paintinga mesmerizing, relaxing background for spoken lyrics reflecting on the valueof living stress-free, "like a tree."
	MP3.com CD: Head - buy it! CD: Head   Label: Visual Music (self released) Credits: Words by Koda. Music by Koda and Darren Weight.
	Story Behind the Song I started out by coming up with a strage title while camping, "Hike Like a Tree." It was just a funny idea, and I wanted to see if I could come up with a way to make the title make sense in a song. Much to my suprise, thinking about that resulted in imagining what the experience of being a tree might be like and the words came to me while sitting in a coffee shop one day. Seven years later and countless hours of working to perfect the idea in musical terms we finally got it finished. Lyrics Hike Like a Tree I was sitting on the couch at the party Feeling stressed because my life was going nowhere So I went out back, and layed on the lawn Underneath a big tree And the tree seemed so calm With it's leaves flowing in the cool night air And I wondered aloud how it could find such peace Living it's life in just one place I talked to the tree, and it talked to me Silently, with emotion And it told me how to let the world come to me How to hike, like a tree So I stretched my limbs And raised my ming high into the sky I saw the traffic moving through the city And the birds flying by I saw all the people at the party And the moon swimming through the clouds And I watched as the turning Earth swept up the stars As they came spilling out from the sea For a hundred years or more I saw towns and people come and go I let the world come to me As I hiked like a tree I was lying on the lawn, when a friend touched my arm Wondering what had become of me "Well, for the last hundred years or so," I said, "I've been hiking like a tree."

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