Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky Lyrics

Lyric discussion by trimtrab 

Cover art for Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky lyrics by Manic Street Preachers

Here's what I got from an older discussion...

'I think it's an image from the THB-era trip to Auschwitz/Birkenau concentration camp. The main spotlight on the gate watchtower become known as The Black Flower of Brzezinka because of it's shape and colour. http://www.remember.org/jacobs/BlackFlower.html

I think that Richey was comparing the fate of the animals he had seen in the documentary with the prisoners' fate - death being the only release for most.

The "small black flowers" are the lights around the animal enclosures.'