Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
This heartrending acoustic song from the Manics' 1996 album Everything Must Go was written by Richey Edwards, who went missing just over a year prior to the album’s release.
The song is about life for animals in zoo captivity, more specifically a tiger at a zoo who went mad from loneliness and isol...
[Verse 1]
You have your very own number
They dress your cage in its nature
Once you roared now you just grunt lame
Pace around pathetic pound games
[Chorus]
Wanna get out won't miss you sensaround
To carry your own dead to swing your tyre tricks
Wanna get out here you're bred dead quick
For the outside
The small black flowers that grow in the sky
[Verse 2]
They drag sticks along your walls
Harvest your ovaries dead mothers crawl
Here comes warden, Christ, temple, elder
Environment not yours you see through it all
[Chorus]
Wanna get out won't miss you sensaround
To carry your own dead to swing your tyre tricks
Wanna get out here you're bred dead quick
For the outside
The small black flowers that grow in the sky
Here chewing your tail is joy
Small Black Flowers That Grow in the Sky was written by Richey Edwards & Sean Moore & James Dean Bradfield & Nicky Wire.
Small Black Flowers That Grow in the Sky was produced by Mike Hedges.
Manic Street Preachers released Small Black Flowers That Grow in the Sky on Mon May 20 1996.