“For I hate the trees And I hate the flowers And I hate the buildings And the way they tower over me Can't you see? I get so frightened No one else seems frightened Only me, only me…😢”
well, that's the kicker with this song -- the lyrics are about being in a beautiful open space, but being afraid irrationally. so the intrumental and melody are all beautiful, but the lyrics show that even in this beautiful situation, the singer is afraid. the pure expression of an irrational phobia is when the singer, over beautiful instrumental music, sings "i get so frightened, no-one else seems frightened."
this shit got me cryin' bruh😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
Boy George's favourite song of 1983. Couldn't agree more (except maybe the Sisters of Mercy's 'Temple of Love'). If only Rose ad Jill had gone with an indie label instead of WEA, I reckon we'd still be hearing new SS stuff even now. One of my favourite bands of the 80's. Such sublime music, and Rose's voice is the best I've ever heard
There are two on Spotify, one is the original demo when they were an all girl band and the other is the extended mix of the single. This is the original single from 83.
I have only ever heard this song once, on John Peel's late night radio show Top Gear, I remembered it as Strawberry Shortcake so of course I could never find it. Eventually I Googled the lyrics and came up with the correct group name. Lovely song, thanks for posting it. I loved the eighties, so much great music.
They are similar to the Cure and This Mortal coil in as much as even their upbeat tunes have sad lyrics. Rose is a laugh to be around with a great sense of humour though even if this doesn't come across in her music so much. I have had some fun times with her.
Love this song so much, shame that it came from a sad subject like Agoraphobia to inspire Jill Bryson to write it. Its lovely to hear her hiatus from music is over and she is back writing again.
I first heard it on the radio,and I think it was probably Radio 1,back then so it must have got a little airplay - though not much. Whichever DJ played it also explained that it was about agoraphobia,just as well because otherwise I would have thought it was negativity for no apparent reason.
One of my favourite bands of the early 80s. I remember Peel playing this and was impelled to travel 100 miles to buy the single. I loved these two; other were on TV a couple of times when they were the bees knees for 15 minutes.
Strawberry Switchblade was one of the greatest delights of the 1980s. They always had better than average songwriting and sometimes quirky instrumentation. I hadn't heard this song before (today being 2017 Oct 25), but it's another good one.
I was early drawn to "Goth music" having whet my first literary appetite on E.A. Poe when I was 14. In my early 20s these sirens graced corporate rock and fortified my devotion to the Gothic ethos
This song should have been promoted better. I think it had very good potential to be a smash. They were not promoted very heavy here in Canada and the US but I learned about Strawberry Switchblade from a HITS 2 compilation I bought from the U.K. (The track "Since Yesterday" was on that one).
This song was the A side of a record label set up be Will Sergent of Echo and the Bunnymen called '99 Happy Customers' and the band included someone out of Aztec Camera, a couple of Madness and some other luminaires of the industry and though as an independant release it wasn't a hit it did get them the record deal that produced 'Since Yesterday' which seems to have been a hit all over the place - and the album. Without which you might not be here today so not a total waste of time. Is a mighty fine tune but such were the radio of the time this lovely pop tune had to rely on John Peel for promotion so crap was radio 1 and 2 in general this and many more great toons of the era just disapeared
I hear a lot of precursors to dream pop and shoegaze with this album. It's so beautiful and raw in its own way. When I listen to Go Away I imagine a band like Lush or Slowdive.
This was epic when it was released to almost universal apathy and I heard it once and went straight out and bought it, 12" version. Still wonderful and about a serious subject the idiots at the BBC could never comprehend. Top class.
Dawn cracks the dark And it breaks the silence Of my waking hours And my heartbeat's licence For I hate the trees And I hate the flowers And I hate the buildings And the way they tower over me Can't you see I get so frightened No-one else seems frightened Only me, only me I can't but see That the sun has risen To my window, my world Of my home sweet prison For I hate the trees And I hate the flowers And I hate the buildings And the way they tower over me Can't you see I get so frightened No-one else seems frightened Only me, only me
it was a really stunning song. it got some play in Houston on college radio and pacifica stations. their later semi-success was unfortunately more about their look and the too-sweet sound and less about the way that sound concealed the darkness of the lyrics, which was more the point.
@Strawberry7Lynn well I must've heard it on Radio One because I didn't listen to much else in those days. Probably on Janice Long's 8 to 10pm show or John Peel even later. (After checking with 'Keeping It Peel') I see it was included in their 1982 session for the great man.
While this original song is GREAT - Dum Dum Girls did an absolutely IMPECCABLE cover of this track for an EP released in 2012 called End of Daze. Dum Dum Girls are no longer around and have broke up I believe in 2015, but their End of Daze EP still stands as some of the strongest output of that year and the strongest output specifically in totality by Dum Dum Girls.
reminded of "burial of the flowers" from the '87 tv adaptation of dream of red mansions which you wouldn't comprehend unless your life has led you to investigate the four classics and then spent an enormous amount of time watching that lengthy production about the insensate fuckheadedness of human culture. but a teenager buries some flowers and cries and then she dies and then everyone dies and baoyu looks back as his father is carted away for execution then he walks off in the snow and it doesn't matter for fuck does it. i always thought it was fascinating not only because the music is celebrated but because like a decade before i watched it or even knew of its existence i had decided to read chinese news one day, wild hair up my ass trying to keep tabs on humanity, and remember that the top story was that the actress who played lin daiyu had just died of breast cancer. it was like i could hear or feel all the sadness of those endeared to the two actors and sensed enough to investigate, the same way that in 2014 i could hear the prayers of west papuans form the other side of the world, but no one would seem to give a fuck about that either, would they. so tl;dr = trees and flower die, assholes build towers, but why does everyone think this is fucking great so they can rub their genitals on a piece of meat destined for the grave. balls to the lot of you. balls to the lot of you. fucking fifty and where can i even get some weed, did you think about that either no i bet see
omg. that cyber creation styled like our generation, demography and culture. and your avatar styled like our generation, demography and culture, from another era. uh, this is creepy ?
" licence " - to give permission - " heartbeat's licence " permission to exist under the constraints of heart stopping agoraphobia, I presume ??? It's poetic I'm assumin'.
So lucky to have been a teenager in the 80’s.
Amen, that's pretty much my comment under every music video I watch ;)
Who would've thought a song about agoraphobia could be so beautiful
“For I hate the trees
And I hate the flowers
And I hate the buildings
And the way they tower over me
Can't you see?
I get so frightened
No one else seems frightened
Only me, only me…😢”
well, that's the kicker with this song -- the lyrics are about being in a beautiful open space, but being afraid irrationally. so the intrumental and melody are all beautiful, but the lyrics show that even in this beautiful situation, the singer is afraid. the pure expression of an irrational phobia is when the singer, over beautiful instrumental music, sings "i get so frightened, no-one else seems frightened."
So many years later, and I STILL love this song!!
beautiful song. such a shame they went their separate ways. they deserved more recognition.
this shit got me cryin' bruh😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
Oh,how i love the sweet voices of these beautiful ladies.
This is so heartbreakingly sad, I hope Jill is doing better these days...
Boy George's favourite song of 1983. Couldn't agree more (except maybe the Sisters of Mercy's 'Temple of Love'). If only Rose ad Jill had gone with an indie label instead of WEA, I reckon we'd still be hearing new SS stuff even now. One of my favourite bands of the 80's. Such sublime music, and Rose's voice is the best I've ever heard
I thought that was boy George on the cover when I first saw it
'In the temple of love, love, love........
Some really crap comments about this. A great song about the singers crippling agoraphobia.
This sounds so different from the version on Spotify
There are two on Spotify, one is the original demo when they were an all girl band and the other is the extended mix of the single. This is the original single from 83.
夜明けが暗闇を裂いて
目覚めている わたしの時間
その静けさを破る
そしてわたしの
心臓の自由な鼓動も
そう わたしは木々が嫌い
花々がきらい
ビルがきらい
わたしの上にのしかかる
あの感じ…
わからない？
わたしがこんなに怖がってるのが
他の誰も怖がっていない様子
わたしだけ ただ
わたしだけ
ああ 陽が昇った
わたしの窓に
わたしの世界に
わたしのホーム
わたしのおぞましくも素敵な
監獄に…
Wow…great song…I’ve only ever heard ‘Since Yesterday’…🙌🏻👩🏻🦰👩🏼🏴🏴😍😍🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Lovely song 👍💕🌹
I have only ever heard this song once, on John Peel's late night radio show Top Gear, I remembered it as Strawberry Shortcake so of course I could never find it. Eventually I Googled the lyrics and came up with the correct group name. Lovely song, thanks for posting it. I loved the eighties, so much great music.
how come all of their songs make me cry?
Its because its so beautiful
cus you're a pusspuss
They are similar to the Cure and This Mortal coil in as much as even their upbeat tunes have sad lyrics. Rose is a laugh to be around with a great sense of humour though even if this doesn't come across in her music so much. I have had some fun times with her.
because you are a lovely sensitive person!
the lyrics are pretty sad
One of the best songs EVER! The Creepy, Dark edge of the lyrics are tempered by the "Wonderful" , sweet vocals! One of their best in my opinion.
Love this song so much, shame that it came from a sad subject like Agoraphobia to inspire Jill Bryson to write it. Its lovely to hear her hiatus from music is over and she is back writing again.
I first heard it on the radio,and I think it was probably Radio 1,back then so it must have got a little airplay - though not much. Whichever DJ played it also explained that it was about agoraphobia,just as well because otherwise I would have thought it was negativity for no apparent reason.
One of my favourite bands of the early 80s. I remember Peel playing this and was impelled to travel 100 miles to buy the single. I loved these two; other were on TV a couple of times when they were the bees knees for 15 minutes.
You were impelled, or Peel had been impelled? - 'other' were on TV?
Strawberry Switchblade was one of the greatest delights of the 1980s.
They always had better than average songwriting and sometimes quirky instrumentation.
I hadn't heard this song before (today being 2017 Oct 25), but it's another good one.
I was early drawn to "Goth music" having whet my first literary appetite on E.A. Poe when I was 14. In my early 20s these sirens graced corporate rock and fortified my devotion to the Gothic ethos
This song should have been promoted better. I think it had very good potential to be a smash. They were not promoted very heavy here in Canada and the US but I learned about Strawberry Switchblade from a HITS 2 compilation I bought from the U.K. (The track "Since Yesterday" was on that one).
This song was the A side of a record label set up be Will Sergent of Echo and the Bunnymen called '99 Happy Customers' and the band included someone out of Aztec Camera, a couple of Madness and some other luminaires of the industry and though as an independant release it wasn't a hit it did get them the record deal that produced 'Since Yesterday' which seems to have been a hit all over the place - and the album. Without which you might not be here today so not a total waste of time. Is a mighty fine tune but such were the radio of the time this lovely pop tune had to rely on John Peel for promotion so crap was radio 1 and 2 in general this and many more great toons of the era just disapeared
This is a gem. Truly, truly beautiful. I hadn't heard this before today. [] " I get so frightened, no one else seems frightened. Only me." []
I heard it for the first time today (2024) and it made me cry...
A very underrated band love em
I wish this version was on spotify
I love this song
Saw them at Nottingham Rock City.
I HATE THE TREES I HATE THE FLOWERS
Brillant song.
I hear a lot of precursors to dream pop and shoegaze with this album. It's so beautiful and raw in its own way. When I listen to Go Away I imagine a band like Lush or Slowdive.
I also hear The Velvet Underground
Absolutely beautiful.
One of the best songs I have ever heard. LOVE IT!
always makes me smile this tune. Such a wonderful little band. One of my most treasured. Brings back many a memory.
Hauntingly beautiful. But the extended version sets up the sad grandeur feeling even better.
this is the switchblade that will remain stuck in my heart!...they should not have gone down that electro pop road!
No one did "electropop" better than they did. All of it including this was simply amazing. They took it to whole other level.
Love this band
Oh my God I love you for posting this! I have been looking for this for ages. I had the EP when I was 15, and lost it over the years. *Sob*
Thanks for all the nice comments and ratings folks!
This was epic when it was released to almost universal apathy and I heard it once and went straight out and bought it, 12" version. Still wonderful and about a serious subject the idiots at the BBC could never comprehend. Top class.
love this and...since yesterday...
Playing this song makes you realize your not in the 80`s anymore! :(
Indeed.
Soon you'll be in Your 80's at least.
Darkly beautiful
Sincerity is the best flattery
Dawn cracks the dark
And it breaks the silence
Of my waking hours
And my heartbeat's licence
For I hate the trees
And I hate the flowers
And I hate the buildings
And the way they tower over me
Can't you see
I get so frightened
No-one else seems frightened
Only me, only me
I can't but see
That the sun has risen
To my window, my world
Of my home sweet prison
For I hate the trees
And I hate the flowers
And I hate the buildings
And the way they tower over me
Can't you see
I get so frightened
No-one else seems frightened
Only me, only me
A lot of people in the US know and love Rose and Jill. I've been a fan and DJing there music for years.
That's not true.
it was a really stunning song. it got some play in Houston on college radio and pacifica stations. their later semi-success was unfortunately more about their look and the too-sweet sound and less about the way that sound concealed the darkness of the lyrics, which was more the point.
my favorite song by them........Beautiful!
Thanks VernianProcess. I see from the viewing stats that they've got lots of fans in the U.S.!
@Strawberry7Lynn well I must've heard it on Radio One because I didn't listen to much else in those days. Probably on Janice Long's 8 to 10pm show or John Peel even later. (After checking with 'Keeping It Peel') I see it was included in their 1982 session for the great man.
The John Peel sessions are brilliant.
beautiful
Great to hear this, the original release had Bedders and Woody from Madness as the rythym section. Quality !
Sad memories.
Omg this is soooo moving
Stunning 💟💟💟
Luv this track :-)
galaxie 500 really ripped this off with tugboat
This song is so beautiful!
They are a great band do they still produce music today
I did a bass cover of the demo version of this song
thank you Jesse Alba
Thanks @hanselkksc, you're more than welcome!
i understand true love now....
love!
I love this song. I hate outside too.
While this original song is GREAT - Dum Dum Girls did an absolutely IMPECCABLE cover of this track for an EP released in 2012 called End of Daze. Dum Dum Girls are no longer around and have broke up I believe in 2015, but their End of Daze EP still stands as some of the strongest output of that year and the strongest output specifically in totality by Dum Dum Girls.
Thanks Kelly! It's surprising to get comments from the States, but very nice too ;-)
How did you hear about this song?
for I hate the trees and I hate the flowers
and you hate the world ....
reminded of "burial of the flowers" from the '87 tv adaptation of dream of red mansions
which you wouldn't comprehend unless your life has led you to investigate the four classics
and then spent an enormous amount of time watching that lengthy production about the insensate fuckheadedness of human culture. but a teenager buries some flowers and cries and then she dies and then everyone dies and baoyu looks back as his father is carted away for execution then he walks off in the snow and it doesn't matter for fuck does it.
i always thought it was fascinating not only because the music is celebrated but because like a decade before i watched it or even knew of its existence i had decided to read chinese news one day, wild hair up my ass trying to keep tabs on humanity, and remember that the top story was that the actress who played lin daiyu had just died of breast cancer.
it was like i could hear or feel all the sadness of those endeared to the two actors and sensed enough to investigate, the same way that in 2014 i could hear the prayers of west papuans form the other side of the world, but no one would seem to give a fuck about that either, would they. so tl;dr = trees and flower die, assholes build towers, but why does everyone think this is fucking great so they can rub their genitals on a piece of meat destined for the grave. balls to the lot of you. balls to the lot of you. fucking fifty and where can i even get some weed, did you think about that either no i bet see
Does anyone have recommendations with songs like these
I absolutely love Rose’ tone of voice enough to buy SS greatest hits no regrets
does anyone know the chords to this song - I can't figure it out?
Ray Brown try chordify, if they don't have it on file they can interpret but l think you have to subscribe for that service.
First Dream Pop OoO
wheres the first half ?
Good old Pitchfork!
Don't deliberately cool you out and go beep in your ear.
Nice oboe
best ender
wow. good. i think this is better than dum dum version
he broke my strawberry shortblade!
Heard it on tik tok and I just had to look it up on you tube 😍💖
@csong808 You're very welcome.
Their ladies, they'll just threaten and pinch-face stare ya down.
Just found this after reading Tugboat by Galaxie 500 was inspired by this.
this makes so much sense because i always get the two songs mixed up in my head
omg. i´m so creeped out how all these image makers just raid everything our cultures
i get so licensed
no one else seems lie sensed
only meeeeeeeeee
(in response to the oft posted wrong lyrics)
Why the guitar sound just like Tugboat by Galaxie 500
I have heard that Galaxie were inspired by this
omg. that cyber creation styled like our generation, demography and culture. and your avatar styled like our generation, demography and culture, from another era.
uh, this is creepy ?
@@bizyizziaz4831 You sound like a ret@rd.
such nice music so english
they´re not english
so Scottish
god i love zach minuto
what do u mean
the song background of my pandemic year
lol. are you seriously all styled like how we grew up ?
This was recorded as a 4 piece group at first.
this is my shit
does anybody know what this song is ab
uh are you seriously all styled like our cultures and how we grew up now ?
it's about jill brysons ( one of the members of strawberry switchblade) agoraphobia :)
And my heartbeat's licence?
" licence " - to give permission - " heartbeat's licence " permission to exist under the constraints of heart stopping agoraphobia, I presume ??? It's poetic I'm assumin'.
Joe Rong
Spot on, Joe. Nicely put!
they actually sing "and my heart displicent"
interesting
🧚♀️⚘️🌺🌸🦠🌸🕸
Sweet and dark.
Sounds very 60s-ish
DumDum Girls do a great elegiac minimalist version of this.
Fabulous song. Not so keen on their songs after this. Too much drum machine. Saw them at Rock City in Nottingham
this band has better demos then the actual song
Like to meet them in a back alley?
Yep.