Thunder please explain (please explain)

why you ask me how I am I'm fine I

wonder is it sane (is it sane)

to pierce purple eyeballs made of china

{Canon}

I love you like a son like a game I have won

like a toothbrush I used for the Eiffel Tower

my youth it is gone it's a boot stuck in the ground

is there truth to be found in an iron flower

Mmmm... I will try hard to be a spark of power

mmmm... I will, I'll never be your iron flower

Stone please explain (please explain)

why your silence makes more noise then thunder

bones, is it sane (is it sane)

to obey me and the flesh you're under

{Canon}

Your words are soon gone and it hurts, I have none

take a jump from your pretty linguistic tower

the goal of speech, so obnoxious to reach

only one thing to do, melt your iron flower

Mmmm... I will try hard to be a spark of power

mmmm... I will, I'll never be your iron flower


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Iron Flower Lyrics as written by Sarah Bettens Gert Bettens

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    Man, no one has commented? This is such a great song musically... I am not usually a huge fan of minor keys but damn this is good stuff

    woodendogzon April 17, 2004   Link
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    This is kinda a hard song to find a solid meaning for...thats probably why...

    DevilofTruthon October 11, 2006   Link
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    An iron flower, what does he/she mean with that anyways?

    hero123on April 12, 2011   Link

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