Beautiful Flower (Original by Roxy)

!±8± Beautiful Flower (Original by Roxy)

One of my newer, slightly darker songs... I was thinking about how when people find something beautiful, like a flower, they feel the need to take it and make it their own, tearing it away from its home and putting it in a glass vase (killing it in the process) admiring it until it dies and then having to throw it out...what a tragic waste of beautiful life! I figure if we really loved something we would simply let it be, rather than wanting to have it and killing it in the process... so I guess this song is about learning to admire things that we find beautiful from a distance rather than rushing to possess it and killing it in the process... it's also my way of saying that life, in any shape or form, is too precious to let it go to waste, especially for selfish reasons... (note- the flowers behind me are plastic, so I am not a hypocrite...at least, not for that reason! lol) Lyrics Beautiful flower Pretty to look at Lovely to smell Yet as soon as she is plucked To be enjoyed Her life is cut short She starts to wither In her glass vase She no longer exudes her fragrant scent Nor does she glow With the same beauty and awe She once posessed Her life is fleeting so quickly It all passes in the blink of an eye Loved and admired but only from a distance Her thorns protect her If picked someone gets pricked Pain and discomfort then ensue Better believe it's true Blood trickles down the fingers of yet another greedy fool, who tried to have her for themselves Life is fleeting so ...