Cover art for Free Treasure by Adrianne Lenker
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Free Treasure Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Do you wanna go to the river?
I know this spot so deep and green
With wild raspberries and apple trees
And rocks to climb between
Water like a washing machine

[Verse 2]
Do you wanna dance?
Sometimes I think I try too hard
I trip on my shoes and I trip on my shirt
Get caught on the dirt in the yard
Caught on the dirt in the yard

[Chorus]
You show me
Understanding
Patience and pleasure
Time and attention
Love without measure
Love without measure

[Verse 3]
You're cooking dinner
It's gettin' around half-past-ten
I haven't smelled food so good
Since I don't know where and I don't know whеn

Where and I don't know—
[Verse 4]
Stove light glows likе a fire
We're sitting on the kitchen floor
Just when I thought I couldn't feel more
I feel a little more
I feel a little—

[Chorus]
Understanding
Patience and pleasure
Time and attention
Love without measure
Love without measure

[Verse 5]
There's a guy on the nape of my neck
And he hangs out there all day
He quantifies my every thought
And tells me not to play
He tells me not to play


[Verse 6]
We lay around for hours
Talk about childhood pain
Mom and dad and past lives too

I can tell you anything
I can say anything
[Chorus]
You show me
Understanding
Patience and pleasure
Time and attention
Love without measure
Love without measure
Show me
Understanding
Patience and pleasure
The eleventh dimension
Free treasure

Free treasure
Free treasure

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Genius Annotation

“Free Treasure” is about nature and about the beautiful, pleasant things that are simply part of life for free. The wonder of seeing a tree or a meadow. A good conversation. Being together. That which probably threatens the machine. The Matrix dampens it, covers it and contaminates it. It is not just about nature, but also about ideas.

– Adrianne, via OOR Magazine (translated from Dutch)

This song was debuted at Umeda Club Quattro in Osaka, Japan on 14 November 2022.

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Genius Answer

Free Treasure is one of my all timer favorite songs. I was playing it on a stoop for my good friend James Krivchenia, singing the last chorus when he chimed the words “free treasure”. Thanks james for those words. I hope we all can know love like this-one full of “understanding, patience and pleasure, time and attention and love without measure.”

– via Instagram

Credits
Acoustic Guitar
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Double Infinity
Release Date
March 18, 2024
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