Flowers are Periscopes is the eighth track off of Dan Warren’s 2008 album The Scientist. One of the shortest tracks on the album, its simple three-verse structure tells a short tale of a person who decides to become a burrowing creature, at the expense of their social connections.
[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
I train myself
So I can
Move like swimming
Underground
I close my eyes
They're no use
Navigating by the sound
Of footsteps
Overhead
[Verse 2]
I tell myself
That the sunshine's not that great
Sometimes I
Think I'm lying
But don't confront myself
I'm afraid
What if I
Have wasted all
These lonely years?
[Verse 3]
Now I miss my friends
I miss my family and fresh air
Sometimes I have been known
To spend whole days
Staring at the world up there
Flowers are
Periscopes
Peering up
Through wavеs of grass
Flowers are Periscopes was written by Dan Warren.
Dan Warren released Flowers are Periscopes on Tue Jan 01 2008.