Tree

Gungor frames "Tree" as a string of questions about the body. "Did the tree of life divorce its body?" it asks, picturing a tree that tries to save its soul while hating its bark, longing for freedom from branches and despising the roots "that plumb the dark." A follow-up question, "Are trees ashamed for needing sunlight?", turns the image into a comment on how people treat their own physical selves.

The middle section moves from imagery to human motives. Why do we despise the body? The song offers guesses, afraid of death, searching and growing, "tired of hurting," afraid of losing what we have, without settling on one. It also asks, "What is life without a body, what is love without the pain," and hopes we might "ease the suffering" while staying unattached to what we have.

The last verse states the answer plainly: a man can learn to love his body without his soul being undone, because "you are spirit, soul and body" and beneath it all "the all is one." It echoes Paul's wording about spirit, soul and body kept whole, and the idea that the body is not a thing to escape.