I wrote my first song when I was 7 years old, suffice it to say it sucked b… Read Full Bio ↴I wrote my first song when I was 7 years old, suffice it to say it sucked but the point is that I’ve been writing music for the better part of three or four decades. Early on, I had classical training, then somewhere along the way I heard Hendrix at which point I decided this music thing might be fun. Nowadays I spend a great deal of time collaborating with filmmakers and so I deal with music as it applies to storytelling.

Typically, a composition forms in my head before I even pick up an instrument and often, the center piece of an idea will evolve by experimenting with a sound or a piece of gear in my studio in the initial stages of the process. Although my primary skills as a performer are as a singer and a guitarist, I employ a much more expansive palette for my adventures in film and tv.

The musical style of my current projects run the gamut: a gritty rock score for “Californication” (Showtime), an Americana/Copeland-esque orchestral score for the Mario Van Peebles feature film “Black, White & Blues” (starring Michael Clark Duncan and Tom Skerritt), a jazz inflected funk-tronica score for Keith Parmer’s debut feature film “TIC” (starring Lennie James), and for SONY Playstation’s revolutionary new video game, “MAG,” a thunderous combat score pairing a battery of Native American and Eastern drums with swampy slide guitar. Bottom line, I cover a lot of ground with these different projects and in the process, I get the opportunity to make music with some incredibly talented individuals.
As a recording artist/producer, I am working on 3 different cds right now: “DUSK” a series of dark vignettes that accompany a graphic novel that I am developing of the same name that I have co-written with Christophe Farber. Second, a blues CD containing half a dozen songs featured in the film “Black, White & Blues” as well as some others that fell out of my brain around the same time this past summer. The third project is a soundtrack for “TIC,” which features songs that I perform as wells as collaborations with several different artists that I hand picked for the project.

I spent most of the 90s on the road in a rock band called the Hatters. We had long hair and were not afraid to take long loud guitar solos. After a thousand gigs, many more miles than I care to remember and a few records on Atlantic, we hung it up before anyone got substantially wounded.
As it happens, I am alive and well today, sequestered in my studio in a Hollywood/Los Feliz canyon. Thanks for listenin.’
TREE ADAMS

The Last Mile
Tree Adams Lyrics

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Hard times once again
Stumble and fall
You just won't win
Hustle and grime
Whatever you got for the last mile

Shot down once again
Looking around

You lost your friend
Whatever you got for the last mile
Whatever you got for the last mile

Riding to the sunset once again
Pulling down the window taking it in
Riding to the sunset once again

Hard times once again
Stumble and fall
You just won't win
Hustle and grime

Whatever you got for the last mile

Shot down once again
Looking around
You lost your friend
Whatever you got for the last mile
Whatever you got for the last mile
Whatever you got for the last mile
Whatever you got for the last mile

Hiding in the shadows

Waiting for the moment
It has been a lifetime not to prepare

Overall Meaning

"The Last Mile" by Tree Adams is a song about struggle, perseverance, and survival. The lyrics talk about hard times, stumbling and falling, and the constant feeling that you just won't win. The singer is resilient, though, always willing to hustle and get their hands dirty to keep going.

The chorus "Whatever you got for the last mile" is a nod to the idea that life is a journey with various trials and tribulations, and that we all have to make it to the end somehow. What matters is what we bring to the table to make sure we make it. Even if we are shot down and have lost something or someone along the way, all we have to do is look within ourselves and find the strength to keep moving forward, to ride into the sunset once again.

The bridge of the song, "Hiding in the shadows, waiting for the moment, it has been a lifetime not to prepare," encapsulates the idea that we can never be truly prepared for what life throws our way, but we can still take action and face it head-on when the moment arises.

Overall, "The Last Mile" is a call to never give up and to always push on, no matter how hard things get.

Line by Line Meaning

Hard times once again
Difficulties have arisen once more

Stumble and fall
Tripping and collapsing

You just won't win
You will not be victorious

Hustle and grime
Working hard and struggling

Whatever you got for the last mile
Use what you have left to finish the journey

Shot down once again
Defeated once more

Looking around
Observing the surroundings

You lost your friend
You have lost a companion

Riding to the sunset once again
Going towards the setting sun again

Pulling down the window taking it in
Opening the window to take it all in