I agree with you sweetcin, these are the lyrics of someone not far from being driven to suicide.
I take this to be about Rozz's shame and guilt over his addiction to heroin. In most of the song he is telling us how pathetic he feels about his cowardly self. The "flowers" of the title is a reference to his feeling so small that he can't see the bud of a rose - only the stems.
Seeking forgiveness for the same old sins strikes me as a reference to addiction as do his praying for the poppies to simply vanish from his life. Ditto for the lines about lovely, pretty, and deadly flowers all hiding their "light" (heroin dreams) inside of shame regarding the cowardice and weakness that he feels makes him an addict.
In the end he's talking about being crowned with flowers as if he's delicate and unable to care for himself. He finds this painful beyond measure and decides to just 'fade away' into heroin dreams so he doesn't have to think about how he's faded 'like a flower' and will soon not be remembered, valued, or beautiful (an amazing resemblance to his own eulogy).
I agree with you sweetcin, these are the lyrics of someone not far from being driven to suicide.
I take this to be about Rozz's shame and guilt over his addiction to heroin. In most of the song he is telling us how pathetic he feels about his cowardly self. The "flowers" of the title is a reference to his feeling so small that he can't see the bud of a rose - only the stems.
Seeking forgiveness for the same old sins strikes me as a reference to addiction as do his praying for the poppies to simply vanish from his life. Ditto for the lines about lovely, pretty, and deadly flowers all hiding their "light" (heroin dreams) inside of shame regarding the cowardice and weakness that he feels makes him an addict.
In the end he's talking about being crowned with flowers as if he's delicate and unable to care for himself. He finds this painful beyond measure and decides to just 'fade away' into heroin dreams so he doesn't have to think about how he's faded 'like a flower' and will soon not be remembered, valued, or beautiful (an amazing resemblance to his own eulogy).