Fruit Tree, Nick Drake

[Roddymack]

Nick and his friend john martyn, miles ahead of everyone at the time

[BenRachmian]

Can't stop listening to this song..

[boobyscooby1]

Such beautiful music from such a tortured soul x

[roni1983]

it sends shivers down my spine to think about the prophecy of this song. When he sings, "fruit tree, fruit tree, open your eyes to another year, they'll all know that you were here when you're gone - it seems so much as if he's talking to himself. It's odd that he realized his own greatness, being a man with depression, because those tend to pretty much think they're worthless - but I guess depression can manifest in many forms.

[bifferspice]

lovely vid :) there's a "where" rather than a "were" at the end, but it's a lovely vid :) thanks very much for all that effort

[hanna14394]

This is truely so beautiful. It reminds me of my father who will die alone with his money.

[manorcraft64]

@hanna14394 thats sad sorry for you

[rizzo742]

I am honoured to say that I have known this amazing man called Laurence Newman. He was like a second father to me. This song played at his funeral.

[Fucku2A]

Yes, stalk is the base of the plant, but the stalk is the stem of the plant - in fruit trees, the root stock is what is planted in the ground. It's what determines the vigour of the plant, as well as its size and disease resistance, while the top part, which bears the fruit, is a different variety and in effect a clone of the original tree. I'd guess that Nick Drake would have been familiar with gardening, having grown up in the country...

[Fucku2A]

the stock ff the fruit tree is the roots, the top fruiting part is grafted on

[Fucku2A]

should be 'til its stock is in the ground'

[coreyvdh]

actually "stalk" is the proper spelling for the base of a plant.. "stock" is the proper spelling for the business kind :)

[SuperBIGTEL]

Listening to this at 1.42 am in the morning, last song before bed and what a bed this man makes out of his beauty.

[santanaincubus]

"Safe in your place deep in the earth, that's when they'll know what you were really worth", this gave me big chills when I heard this verse. Its very haunting for me to hear that. It really is true that Nick is deep in the earth literally and we all know what he is really worth. I mean its like his ghost is singing this.

[TheTwistedTrilobite]

he was extremely intellectually perceptive for such a young age...

[ironlungmufc]

Definitely the type of dude who would have some light colored birthmarks.

[mistomen]

"You find the darkness can give the brightest light". Nick Drake in a nutshell.

[yizer13]

NICK'S A TIME-TRAVELLER! D:

[GrassAndStuffs]

Safe in your place deep in the earth

That’s when they’ll know what you were truly worth

Forgotten while you’re here

Remembered for a while

A much updated ruin

From a much outdated style

[8888111188887777]

Boy I really like most all of Nick Drake's guitar music, but sometimes his lyrical content and voice/lyrical melody just pretty much ruins it all. Case in point.

[ginnyxwotsit]

@8888111188887777 You are wrong. That is all I have to say.

[cnaptakmockba]

@8888111188887777 to close to the bone for you i feel, give it time

[adrianpfd]

I guess that those 7 that didn't like the video, voted because of how it was edited. If it were for the song, it's impossible, as it's one of the most beautiful everyone could've heard.

[Olfway]

It sounds like this was written by Nick's ghost

[Blake788]

search nicolas and the iceni summer's end. they write beautiful english folk music which has echoes of drake and sandy denny.

[mistomen]

Maybe Nick drake wasn't a god, but hearing Fruit Tree the first time definately was as close to a religous experience as a certified heathen like me can get. Hallelujah Baby!

[Villageiddyit]

I wonder what his music would sound like if he hadn't prophesied his own death.

[turtlelvr2233]

7 people are idiots who are not capable of recognizing true genius when they hear it. How sad for them.

[bodnotbod]

That was beautiful. Thanks for posting it Ripple.

[SixOneCynic]

I completely agree that Nick Drake was a god, or atleast contained a bit of divinity torn from a higher power, from which maybe he didn't understand himself, but understood how to use that power for the enlightenment of countless souls across the earthly realm, and that, is simply intangible and incalculable.

[ranmore30]

@SixOneCynic Jesus Christ, talk about glamourising the dead, you literally just said he was a god... why don't people know the difference between a good musician (Drake) and the divine. I'm not religious i'm just saying its ridiculous how much people glorify Drake being dead

[AllenandHammond]

Remembering you on your Birthday Nick Drake....your amazing music still lives on!!

[metalgearsolid20111]

Deeply sad but fatastically beautiful.Genius.

[tpstrat14]

@metalgearsolid20111 that is the story of Nick's life. Well put, sir.

[chronicreptile]

Special.

[MIKCURIE]

Sad that he died........one year longer and he would have been elegible for the " 27 Club "

[ArchangelBoab]

@MIKCURIE You win my much coveted and competed for trophy for most idiotic youtube comment of the day.

Congratulations. You two-watt lightbulb you. 

[MIKCURIE]

@ArchangelBoab Thank you kindly dear sir.........i must say i am quiet honored and will carry the mantle of my award with all the inelegance it deserves

[PerignonPop]

@MIKCURIE You're most welcome. Shoot for the moon and, if you fall short, you may just catch a star.

[pridsters]

The most beautiful suicide note in history.

[ArchangelBoab]

@pridsters You get a runners up dunce cup for this. With ribbons. People usually write suicide notes nine years before they commit the act?

[pridsters]

@pridsters I'm not quite sure what you mean by this comment..can't tell if it's positive or negative...

[PerignonPop]

@pridsters Jeez-o. You're either four years old or a constant source of concern to your family. Or possibly both.

Don't fret about it. No need for alarm.

[pridsters]

@PerignonPop Well, either way I shall place the accolade in my trophy cabinet where I can gaze at it regularly. And I shall go back to my original point of how beautiful this song is.

[PerignonPop]

@pridsters You have a trophy cabinet for all these objects of imaginary silverware?

It (my sarky reply) was a little snippy, and so I apologise.

I really only meant that you can't really consider something to be 'a suicide note' if it is written/sung/performed nearly a decade before the person responsible's demise.

Anyway, as you were - all good things to you.

[Blake788]

search nicolas and the iceni narrow road to the deep north.

They write beautiful new folk music which has echoes of drake

[mistomen]

No leaves left.

[peterkiggin]

Nick Drake was a man whose heart was like an ocean,his mind was sensitive to everything that was wrong in the world and he won't be the last to go before the day is done.

[Francesko263]

Such a depressing sad and beautiful song.

[GSarovich]

This makes me cry for Nick Drake's passing every time I hear it...

[MrCrispian]

"IT CAN NEVER FLOUISH TILL ITS "STOCK" IS IN THE GROUND",not stalk....stock makes more sense...its stock being its fruit with seeds in it........

[ESkywalker1]

Such a beautiful yet haunting song...fame is but a fruit tree???marvelous!

[me19276]

Nick Drake was born with a talent that the world was not yet ready to accept and appreciate.

[HeirOfJezuz]

@me19276 actually, it wasn't that the world wasn't ready, he didn't promote his music well. he never did live performances or advertised his music. he did one interview while alive and it was clear from his interview that he doesn't want to perform/be in front of people, yet he wanted to be successful. a sad truth, but man, what incredible music

[foursprings]

it doesnt matter he is dead or live, this music cames from another dimension

[MetallicAddict15]

"Fame is but a fruit tree

So very unsound

It can never flourish

Till its stock is in the ground..."

How prophetic his words were; if only he knew how well he was describing his own future with this song. Five Leaves Left is definitely one of the greatest albums of all time.

[skoro80]

@MetallicAddict15

I simply agree.

[c64c64c64]

this song is great, and great lyrics but i hate when people bring their personal problems to the comments section..

js

haha..probably a bit rude, but there you go.

[PathfivePentadaktyl0]

Muy buena música.

Es una ironía, murió a los 26 años por una sobredosis de antidepresivos, murió feliz, al final "logró" serlo...

[cinedores]

what a song for your first album

[tamroluluromtakankav]

he is a fruit tree !!!

[callaaj1983]

guitar genius poet genius a real humanbeing. not a fake animal

[anomistars]

this song impressed me so i cried for days.

[tamroluluromtakankav]

@anomistars and ur comment impressed me !!!

[phree2b]

I Will Forever remember, Nicholas Rodney Drake, June 19th 1948- November 25th 1974. May aflight of angels sing thee to thy rest..

[cinedores]

some people think the string arrangements are not needed - i think this version proves otherwise

[Hibtwa91]

I was watching a Documentary on Nick Drake, one of the things that stuck with me is that they said if you really listen to this songs lyrics, It's almost like a suicide note. Gives me chills.

[lejoe48]

The best pop song ever made.

[lov3ani]

this song is so freaking awesomely crazy.

[JRockin04]

My favorite Nick Drake song. It was as if he prophesied his own demise. Sometimes you just have to wonder where the spirits that inhabited him came from.

[JRockin04]

My favorite Nick Drake song. It was as if he prophesied his own demise. Sometimes you have to wonder where the spirits that inhabited came from.

[memorygirl55]

One of m favourites too... I just note the date you posted this a sad day for me that was 22yrs since my mum died at an age of 56, now I am just over that age I remember Nicks wrk frm when I was in my 30's....nice times, you don't get music like this anymore. rip nick your music lives on thro generations.......

[keefbeef76]

bakercake - to anyone - this is pure poetry to music, and therefore to me, anyway, encouraging and inspiring. full admiration and respect to anyone who can eexpress their prose through tunes !!! tutti fruit tree, keep sleeping on me !

[smitty618]

does anyone find the lyrics to this song eerily contextually accurate to Nick Drakes life in general. His music; "Forgotten while you're here, Remembered for a while" He's a lot more popular now then he was during his short lifetime. "Safe in your place deep in the earth, That's when they'll know what you were really worth," also rings incredibly true. "They'll stand and stare, when you're gone.", "Open your eyes to another year, they'll all know that you were here when your gone"... wow...

[mattgrubbles]

@smitty618 think about this "a much updated ruin from a much outdated sound" referring to the future looking back on his music. the mans border line a god and the greatest artist to walk this earth, thats just a fact

[curiniul]

@smitty618 True. But not eerily so. Early death is a great seller. She was more popular during her life, but watch now how the Amy winehouse collection sells.

[zalmbreggin]

@smitty618 In fact his sister Gabrielle Drake mentions precisely this uncanniness in an interview somewhere: I'm not sure she mentions the song by name, but she could hardly have meant any other. She says something like "sometimes I think Nick was having us all on." That said, when you consider he was a depressive whose work had little popular appeal, if you accept that the song is at least partly autobiographical, I suppose it's not all that uncanny that he might see himself that way.

[ProducShuns]

@zalmbreggin I agree that it's autobiographical in some way. First time I listened to this song i was like "wow... he's talking about himself" I think he figured that people would see him this way if he passed without gaining recognition for his talent. And sure enough here we are. Sad song indeed. Fame was but a fruit tree for Nick :(

RIP brother

[DasGrausam]

@smitty618

it's just that he speaks pure truth.

I like this song a lot, but to me...it's just like depressed realism speaking/singing - when you realize two fundemental truths of the world.

Ultimately - nothing is important.

Nobody truely gives a toss about anybody but themselves, as much as they delude themselves and try to delude everyone around them - the real truths always come out.

[DasGrausam]

In the end...music is just notes and lyrics, books are just nicely ordered words on paper - nothing is special.

[280553vs]

just an amazing talent.. RIP Nick.

[athleticrodbi]

google mp3iify to convert this video to an mp3.

[captaingoatbeard7]

Nick has become the Fruit Tree. We've stood and stared, now he's gone.

[Acousticlampshade]

you know what I like about Drake, He doesn't write songs, he writes a sort of poetic concierto that speaks directly to the heart...It's remarkable

[VincentPrice111]

@Acousticlampshade Yeah, I also hate his drug habits though.

[cameronforbes4]

An ironic assesment on fame looking at the current revival in interest. Proves he was way before his time. Nick Drake Saved Me

[AirHendrix91]

Its incredible how I have yet to realize how death related the lyrics to this song really are until I saw this video.

Truly a genius, if there ever was one.

[cozza07]

sorry sounds depressing

[daehoidareht]

@cozza07 life isn't all fun and games.Good and bad,lightness and darkness,Life and death.

[diabola13]

absolutely beautiful and breathtaking.

[Pertusetian]

A much updated ruin, from a much outdated style. Perhaps Mr Drake had a touch of prophecy.

[durgaaa]

As a little child of 7, I remember my dad planting a plum tree in the yard. As it grew, each summer I ate plums from it that my grandma harvested. Years went by. I left the tree and that house when I was 14. One year I came back when I was 34, in 1985, to stay for just a few short days. In the morning when I woke, I was alone with my grandma and asked where everyone was. I looked out the back kitchen window to see my mother and brother chopping down that fruit tree. They knew not how I felt.

[musiclover609]

Wow... gives me the chills. Truly Masterful.

[laura5787]

Amazing song, but thank God my willpower is strong enough to let me say NO, THANKS.

[nadnerb1007]

Safe in your place deep in the earth

That's when they'll know what you were truly worth.

Don't you worry

They'll stand and stare when you're gone.

You couldn't make it up !

[bally1020]

Love you Nick RIP man, wish you were here right now. God of music, you would have recieved what you deserved today for your works. If you can read this....Thankyou so much.

[thesearethesuns]

This song in itself is profound and haunting; aside from this it also gives us a great deal of insight into the workings of Nick Drake's psyche. Thanks for posting.

[stovenutts]

Is 2:12 mentioning his suicide to come?

[rowania]

@stovenutts

This whole song is prophetic, angels inspired the poetry imo

[STEVEFINNERTY]

Robert Kirby wrote the string arrangement.

[BISLY1]

3:24- 4:48

Most emotional part in all music in all times!!!!!!!!!! blows my mind!!!

[WHOBYFIRE333]

@BISLY1 SO agree

[arizonabay6]

I've honestly never really listened to the lyrics properly before. How sad that he was right. Deeply troubling song isn't it? Beautiful though.

[NedsMissingTeeth]

I love you.

[welles42]

To think Nick wrote this when he was maybe 19, 20?? Limitless potential...anonymous in his own time, but oh how his star has risen now! He has been a revelation for me...

[MrFrewby]

guy wis a shit bag gd tunes though

[djoutrage18]

hmmm i bet poor nick would have hated this cult he has around him now. The people that knew him always remembered him as a happy man, accept when he had his off days and we all have those. Such a wonderful song, and a wonderful album. rip robert kerby, the man that did the string arrangements to this.

[welles42]

@djoutrage18 Based on what I have read, a big source of Nick's depression stemmed from his lack of fame and fortune, about how he was constantly being called a genius but still living off a pitiful allowance from Island Records. Apparently the song 'Hanging on a Star' speaks to this feeling. Maybe he wanted to make it big, but he was entirely too introverted in the end. He couldn't have it both ways, apparently.

[deepenhancer]

this is true art not mtv crap

[magicalmysterygirl]

People as beautiful as Nick should not feel so alone in the world... That is completely unfair... but I can relate and know exactly what he meant. This world sickens me.

[Verceti1]

ooh you're so misunderstood. boo fucking hoo...go write some poetry in your diary turd

[magicalmysterygirl]

Wow... People like you really make the world a better place. *rolls eyes*

[Verceti1]

no one gives a fuck about your gay emotions

[magicalmysterygirl]

I love you too, man. ;)

[Verceti1]

eat my nuggets

[Burt472]

Undescribably beautiful song. No words. Just pure awe when listening to it. Thank you Nick.

[jazzpman]

beautiful song

[lastrevolv]

beautiful guitar intro

[bitterbal55]

There is another mistake in the lyrics of this song. At 4:36, 'that you where here'. It should be 'that you were here'.

:)

Nice vid btw

[deepenhancer]

this song is so prophetic about nick's doom

[welles42]

@deepenhancer yeah, it would seem he knew from the get-go that it wouldn't end well...his stalk never quite got into the ground.

[deepenhancer]

@welles42 That's another proof of his deep depression

[000ytube]

This guy was a fucking genius, how the hell I never heard it?

[OasisKid99]

Same here man, I just found out about this kid yesterday and I haven't stopped listening. I've got a 20 song set-list that is absolutely splendid. Of course, I close it out with this track. Already one of my favorite 10 songs of all time. And he wrote this when he was 20 years old. What a poor tortured soul. Love ya kid...

[whtvrlo]

i thought i write depressive lyrics, so i thought shit.. maybe i have to write something about happiness, but now i see how beautiful sad lyrics can be! what a talent is that man!

[kaptenklegg]

Walking in the forest at night with Nick Drake in my ears and snow on the ground is wildlife at it´s best

[ThePrefontaine]

I'am a Fruit Tree Some people like my fruit and some don't. I will always be that same person stuck in the world

[thepaganwain]

Its truly a sad song, he seems to predicting his own future, as in, when his gone, folk will only then understand what he was about and who he is!

A truly beautiful but very sad song.

Gods Bless...nick and Robert.

[yvish]

@thepaganwain yeah. eerie of you think of it. very scary lyrics, if you ask me

[guitardiary]

Nick Drake- the most amazing song writer that I have ever heard. Bless his soul :( Utterly profound. A great guitarist too. What a loss. What a waste. :(

[christianalexlea]

if only he'd lived one year longer he would be much more popular now... not that he should have died young at all, but if he was 27 along with janis, hendrix, morrison, cobain... more people would look back at his music because of it.

[totter2]

first time listening to nick drake. I like, i like.

[Bakercake]

Probably my favourite Drake song, its quite discouraging for any creative thinking when someone as talented as Nick can create such perfect poetry. Deep dark, and very very human.

[sbrownie]

@Bakercake

i concur...thank you

x

[dermot51]

@Bakercake This is disturbingly brilliant he was only a kid for fuck sake and his grasp of what life meant and what he believed had in store in for him actually scares me a bit they call it genius and i believe he was but he s speaking like a 70 year old man in a kids body and that scares me even more ..... a beautiful song and lyrically up there with Yeats and Blake

[djoutrage18]

I never knew that Robert Kerby had died, RIP.

What a beautiful song, probbably my favourite ever written.

[GlennFink]

RIP Robert Kirby, string arranger for this who just passed away.

[Vallery500]

Robert Kirby has died???

Noooo..... :(((

[daehoidareht]

@GlennFink Sorry to hear that.Another talent gone ,but not forgotten.

[mshorba]

i heard this on a minneapolis radio station online. this song is amazing. it sounds like a song that would be a top hit today. i can't believe it was recorded thirty five years ago.

[mshorba]

reminds of another great talent who left us too early. elliot smith. great song.

[lingeropp]

why should talent be given to people that dont appreciate it , id give my right arm to have one third the talent this guys got .

[boywithstick]

You can have all the talent in the world and still be incredibly unhappy with your life. Even to the point where you decide ending your life is better than continuing to live with it.

[kurtcrowbain]

sometimes it comes at a price. unlock the mind to such talent, and often the "normal" functioning part of the mind becomes locked and you become socially incapable and isolated.

[artvandelay13]

It's amazing how much of himself Nick was able to put into his music. Even before I started reading his biography (and even though he died 15 years before I was born) I felt like I knew him... This song especially sums up his troubled life and career. Such a beautiful yet haunting song... and I love the -- I want to say oboe? -- almost as much as the lyrics.

[MewMewPumpkinPie]

Das schönste und das traurigste Liebesliede ....... - ich liebe es seit ca. 1982..........

Ihr jungen Leute - hört es euch wirklich an (aber nicht, wenn du jetzt superglücklicht bist, das geht nicht.........

[NedsMissingTeeth]

I have been suicidle for a number of years. Through each one of those years, Nick Drake has been there with me. I can't help but think Nick Drake is in someway responsible for my perverse need to die young.

[comakid4000]

shut up a your face

[fuzzy8mike]

Perhaps the last bastion of hope for some artists, recognition in the afterlife

[vinccipun]

stalk should be stock...

[artvandelay13]

True, but understandable.

[Finbarheerlen]

what a wonderful songs did he made and how superb he could sing them. What a great loss

[Mepamper]

Such a sad tale of this man.. What a loss..

[SteevDragon67]

he left us his great music though. too bad he couldn't find success with it in life.

[valentynesuite]

astonish masterpiece

[TheCateDiva6]

It's not so much creepy, as it is haunting. He knew, I think Nick always knew. I think that was why he was so tortured, why he couldn't perform in front of those...people. Poor baby tried to stop it, but he couldn't. Thank God for Joe Boyd's clause.

[cydewynder81]

If you read the lyrics, and compare it to his own personal story, it's really fucking creepy. It's almost like he predicted what would happen.

[Sissham]

Beautifull!