Chestnut Tree (song)
| Matthew Bellamy Song | ||||
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| Name | Chenust Tree (song) | |||
| Album/single | Matt Bellamy x Ilan Eshkeri: George Orwell's 1984 | |||
| Length | 1:35 | |||
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| First live performance | - | |||
| Latest live performance | - | |||
| Recorded | 2024 | |||
| Writer/composer | Matthew Bellamy | |||
| Producer | Matthew Bellamy | |||
| Matthew Bellamy Song Nav | ||||
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One of the few songs in the record on which Matt Bellamy is only credited on its composition. A melancholic piano song, similar to "1984 The World Of Big Brother", the opener of the album, it is followed by a violin.
The Chestnut Three Café is the place in where all party members, including Winston, go to drink alcohol but it is filled with Telescreens, it is also the place, on which dissidents and people who have gone through Room 101 usually gather to drink before "they were finally purged".
Winston remembers the song when looking at Rutherford, one of the oldest party members, crying after being forced to "confess his crimes". Rutherford along with Jones and Aaronson, was re-arrested and executed. Winston deduces that those "confessions" are lies.
Under the spreading chestnut tree, I sold you and you sold me, there lie they, and here lie we, under the spreading chesnut tree
― George Orwell, 1984