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Scorpion Flower Lyrics
Curse the day, hail the night
Flower grown in the wild
In your empty heart
In the breast that feeds
Flower worn in the dark
Can I steal your mind for a while?
Can I stop your heart for a while?
Can I freeze your soul and your time?
Scorpion flower
Token of death
Ignite the skies with your eyes
And keep me away from your light
Surrender tears to your mortal act
Flower cursed be thy fruit
Of your courage last
Of your grand finale
Flower crushed in the ground
In your empty heart
In the breast that feeds
Flower worn in the dark
Can I steal your mind for a while?
Can I stop your heart for a while?
Can I freeze your soul and your time?
Scorpion flower
Token of death
Ignite the skies with your eyes
In your empty heart
In the breast that feeds
Flower worn in the dark
Can I steal your mind for a while?
Can I stop your heart for a while?
Can I freeze your soul and your time?
Scorpion flower
Token of death
Ignite the skies with your eyes
Flower grown in the wild
In your empty heart
In the breast that feeds
Flower worn in the dark
Can I stop your heart for a while?
Can I freeze your soul and your time?
Scorpion flower
Token of death
Ignite the skies with your eyes
And keep me away from your light
Flower cursed be thy fruit
Of your courage last
Of your grand finale
Flower crushed in the ground
In your empty heart
In the breast that feeds
Flower worn in the dark
Can I stop your heart for a while?
Can I freeze your soul and your time?
Scorpion flower
Token of death
Ignite the skies with your eyes
In the breast that feeds
Flower worn in the dark
Can I stop your heart for a while?
Can I freeze your soul and your time?
Scorpion flower
Token of death
Ignite the skies with your eyes
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First off, I love this song. This is just my interpretation - I might be completely wrong, but I honestly feel like this song is written about someone born with the horoscope sign of Scorpio. Scorpios are known for being intense, mysterious people, often with very dark, severe, piercing eyes that stare right through you. The lyrics to this song are amazing. To me, it's also about wanting to know someone completely, wanting to see their soul and everything about who they are, all their darkness and their secrets.
'Can I steal your mind for a while?', 'Can I stop your heart for a while?' These lines suggest to me that overwhelming feeling of wanting to delve into the deepest part of someone's mind, wanting to stop their heart so they can be still, and so you can consume every part of them and know them without them stopping you or putting up walls to guard themselves. 'Ignite the skies with your eyes' - again, to me this is about someone born under the Scorpio sign. The eyes of a Scorpio person can be so penetrating that they seem to ignite power and mystery that you can never really understand, so much power that they could ignite the dark skies with the intensity of their eyes. This is just how I interpret the song. I could probably analyze it much better than that, but all I know is that I love it and I can relate to it!
@sapphire14 It's been a while since I heard this song for the first time but today I tried to think about it's meaning and this is exactly what came to my mind. I don't know how much Moonspell are into astrology...but me and my husband have quite a lot of Scorpio energy in our horoscopes and this sounds like it. As you said, piercing eyes,intensity, delving to the deepest and darkest parts of someones soul...wouldn't describe it better. ;)
@sapphire14 It's been a while since I heard this song for the first time but today I tried to think about it's meaning and this is exactly what came to my mind. I don't know how much Moonspell are into astrology...but me and my husband have quite a lot of Scorpio energy in our horoscopes and this sounds like it. As you said, piercing eyes,intensity, delving to the deepest and darkest parts of someones soul...wouldn't describe it better. ;)
glory to MS!
Amazing band and song!
Amazing band and song!
I'm inclined to think that this song is about love, with scorpion flower being a beautiful metaphor for love since it is generally beautiful, but can be also sting very hard and bring a lot of pain.
Scorpion flower is aka Scorpion Weed, a variety of perennial wildflowers from the family boraginaeae, mostly in the genus phacelia. That is to say, a scorpion flower is a kind of forget-me-not! Thus it symbolizes love, death, and love-transcending-death. The breast that feeds is logically the bosom of a mother of lover. "Render tears to your mortal act / Flower cursed be thy fruit" is telling the flower to cry in remorse for it's death-related activity, or mortal act, and then curses it's fruit. (They do cause rashes and stings that can be rather nasty.) This whole song bewails an unknown tragedy