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Manic Street Preachers – Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky Lyrics 14 years ago
Here's what I got from an older discussion...


'I think it's an image from the THB-era trip to Auschwitz/Birkenau concentration camp. The main spotlight on the gate watchtower become known as The Black Flower of Brzezinka because of it's shape and colour.
http://www.remember.org/jacobs/BlackFlower.html

I think that Richey was comparing the fate of the animals he had seen in the documentary with the prisoners' fate - death being the only release for most.

The "small black flowers" are the lights around the animal enclosures.'

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