Fallen Fruit

"Fallen Fruit" is the fifth track from Lorde's third studio album, Solar Power. The song is about the poor state of our environment and how past generations left us with a dying planet. Via Apple music, Lorde says: I was going to LA to write with Jack and I started this on the plane. There’s always a slightly kind of unhinged or unfiltered quality to songs I write on planes, because I’m at altitude or something. I had been very careful before that point about not being preachy or like, “Hi, I’m a pop star and this is my climate change album!” But I just had this moment where I was like, “This is the great loss of our lives and this will be what comes to define all of our lives and our world will be unrecognisable for my children.” I loved trying to make it sound like this flower child’s lament and making it sound very Laurel Canyon, essentially. At the same time, there’s only one 808 on this record—and it’s in the breakdown of this song. It’s me describing an escape to somewhere safe that takes place in the future when our world has become uninhabitable. I liked snapping into a kind of modern thing for that.[/]

[Verse 1] To the ones who came before us All the golden ones who were lifted on a wing We had no idea the dreams we had were far too big Far too big [Verse 2] And we will walk together (We will walk) Psychedelic garlands in our hair Through the halls of splendor where the apple trees all grew You'll leave us dancing on the fallen fruit [Chorus] The fallen fruit The fallen fruit (Ooh) The fallen fruit [Bridge] From the Nissan to the Phantom to the plane We'll disappear in the cover of the rain Took the great minds and the vapers And a pocketful of seed It's time for us to leave [Verse 3] And we will walk together (We will walk) Psychedelic garlands in our hair But how can I love what I know I am gonna lose? Don't make me choose [Chorus] The fallen fruit The fallen fruit The fallen fruit