Lyric discussion by sweetcaitlyn 

Cover art for Artificial Flowers lyrics by Beautiful South, The

I'm not sure about the Anne Frank bit, but I think it's based of off "The Little Match Seller"/"The Little Match Girl" by Hans Christian Andersen, where the last lines say "In the dawn of morning there lay the poor little one, with pale cheeks and smiling mouth, leaning against the wall; she had been frozen to death on the last evening of the year; and the New-year’s sun rose and shone upon a little corpse! The child still sat, in the stiffness of death, holding the matches in her hand, one bundle of which was burnt. “She tried to warm herself,” said some. No one imagined what beautiful things she had seen, nor into what glory she had entered with her grandmother, on New-year’s day."