Lyric discussion by nosecat 

Cover art for Artificial Flowers lyrics by Beautiful South, The

I've been told that it's about a little child who's parents had died at a young age "Her parents had gone to their final reward" and "When mother and dad went away" and the only way she knew how to make money was to make artifical flowers and sell them to people. I don't know about the ending but it sounds like she was out in the cold for so long that she's died as well and gone to heaven