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These flowers are coming up wild
They're coming up they're coming up, they're coming up wild.
These flowers are coming up wild
They're coming up they're coming up, they're coming up wild.
They are like those children, go off to school and don't come back.
And I am like their mother, waiting around, about to crack, crack, crack, I want them back.
Crack, crack.
I want them back, back, back, back.
You are like a flower, your eyes arise to the sun.
You do not look back at where you came from.
I wanna be like that, that, that, that.
And the boys they run faster, and they throw harder, and they get stronger.
And they are gone, they are gone, they are gone.
I wanna be like that, that, that, that.
And the girls, they are pretty, and they get silly, when they get giddy.
And they are gone, they are gone, they are gone,
I wanna be like that, that, that.
I'm on my knees in the corner, wiping my floor, wiping my floor.
And they are gone, they are gone, they are gone.
I wanna be like that, that, that, that.
These flowers are coming up wild, they're coming up, thewy're coming up, they're coming up wild.
They're coming up they're coming up, they're coming up wild.
These flowers are coming up wild
They're coming up they're coming up, they're coming up wild.
And I am like their mother, waiting around, about to crack, crack, crack, I want them back.
I want them back, back, back, back.
You are like a flower, your eyes arise to the sun.
You do not look back at where you came from.
And they are gone, they are gone, they are gone.
And they are gone, they are gone, they are gone,
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I think this song is about people moving on. It's an analogy between flowers that disperse their seeds, and their offspring (or effectively children) grow [up] away from where they were born and move on.
I think some of it's from the point of view of a mother suffering from empty-nest syndrome. She wants to be wild and free again, like her children, and able to run off and be a wildflower, rather than being trapped in her little life.
As a very late newcomer to Martha Wainwright, and looking over her catalog, there is a theme of anger running through a lot of her songs. Some is obviously directed at her father, but I suspect there is a lot directed at the general social conditions of her surroundings. The third verse: They are like those children Go off to school & don't come back And I am like their mother Waiting around about to crack seems to be to be a lament about the number of kids who don't come home from school, ever. She is definitely angry about it, and is saddened by the losses that mothers have to endure because of some shitty, asshole, oxygen thief.
Recommending this to a friend of mine who does a lot on DeviantArt.