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Flowers and Elephants

from Captains of Industry by buttercup

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writer: odie.

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“flowers & elephants” (odie)

i have lived in the city
and i was born in a country where my mom was born
when it wasn't torn apart by a war
so what the hell's going on now?
i thought i've wanted this here all along
but when your skin is gone you bleed like anyone
or some other tentative camp zama resident
but it's all irrelevant to flowers & elephants

now we are millions of soldiers
in a city or country and geared for a fight
the ilk of ink is incredible in candle light
they cannot speak when it's you they're talking to
they cannot see when it's you they're looking for
while me and all of the hundred fifty thousand
men and women with our children and our cousins
we see through your president and all his sycophants but it's all irrelevant to flowers & elephants

some with a feel and some with a glow
some with a sumo grunt i know
tsunamis predicted by plants and animals

our time is quickly approaching
soon high tide will gently be kissing
la luna na na flowers & elephants,
unborn babies flowers & elephants
and pebbles that fall from the sky
down to the big oak tree
the one with the special branch you bow down to pay homage to
no thing is nothing and nothing is everything

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from Captains of Industry, released June 4, 2007

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