Parsons Playlists: Nature Metaphor

Welcome back to Parsons Playlists! Today’s playlist is curated by Music Library student assistant Georgia (class of 2025) which features some songs featuring songs that use nature as a metaphor.

Nature Metaphor

Trees

Don McLean – “Winter Has Me In Its Grip”

Brian Eno – “Golden Hours”

Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 – “Noble Experiment”

Nick Drake – “River Man”

Labi Siffre – “Cannock Chase”

Radiohead – “Bloom”

Stereolab – “Come and Play in the Milky Night (Demo)”

Mount Eerie – “Through the Trees Pt. 2”

800 cherries – “honeydew blue”

You’ll Never Get to Heaven – “Setting Sun”

Rufus Wainwright – “Poses”

Windsor For The Derby – “The Melody of a Fallen Tree”

Dave Bixby – “Morning Sun”

Linda Perhaps – “Morning Colors”

Animal Collective – “Winters Love”

Vashti Bunyan – “Diamond Day”

Novos Baianos – “Acabou Chorare”

Meat Puppets – “Up on the Sun”

of Montreal – “Sleeping in the Beetle Bug”

Midlake – “We Gathered in Spring”

Mitski – “The Frost”

Art Garfunkel – “Waters of March”

Angel Olsen – “Spring”

Here is a link to the whole playlist on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU94rco57ZeyAnA1CU_3oNnKxFq7NvBoy&si=6WeT7enIBOXllTtA

And here it is on Spotify: