“God Turn Me Into a Flower” is the third and final single from Weyes Blood’s fifth studio album, And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow. The track takes root from the Myth of Narcissus who according to Greek Mythology was the son of the river god Cephissus and the nymph Liriope. In the myth, Narcissus wa...
[Verse 1]
As long as I stand, to face the crowd
To know my name, to know its sound
It's good to be soft when they push you down
[Chorus]
Oh, God, turn me into a flower
[Verse 2]
It always takes me, it's such a curse to be so hard
You shatter easily and can't pick up all those shards
It's the curse of losing yourself when the mirror takes you too far
[Chorus]
Oh, God, turn me into a flower
[Verse 3]
You see the reflection and you want it more than the truth
You yearn to be that dream you could never get to
'Cause the person on the other side has always just been you
[Chorus]
Oh, God, turn me into a flower
[Instrumental Outro]
God Turn Me Into a Flower was written by Weyes Blood.
God Turn Me Into a Flower was produced by Weyes Blood & Jonathan Rado.
Weyes Blood released God Turn Me Into a Flower on Wed Nov 16 2022.
In “God Turn Me into a Flower,” I relay the myth of Narcissus, whose obsession with a reflection in a pool leads him to starve and lose all perception outside his infatuation. In a state of great hubris, he doesn’t recognize that the thing he so passionately desired was ultimately just himself. God...
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