The Long Lost Flowers - The Long Lost Flowers
текст песни

They painted names on metal
In chipped white paint
Iris
Dahlia
Rose
On the launchpad
Faint
Steam in the floodlights
Helmets hiding eyes
Families waving
All those practiced smiles

Long lost flowers
Thrown into the dark
Petals made of steel
Searching for a spark
Three bright whispers
Across a frozen sky
The long lost flowers
Left up there to die

Iris led the arrow
First to cross the shade
Mapping silent highways
Through a dust-choked maze
Dahlia tracked the pulses
Counting every flare
Jokes on scratched-up tablets
Drifting through the air

Long lost flowers
Thrown into the dark
Petals made of steel
Searching for a spark
Three bright whispers
Across a frozen sky
The long lost flowers
Left up there to die

Rose woke up to warnings
Red on every screen
Ice inside the engines
Static in the beam
“Iris
Are you reading?”
Only echoes
Thin
“Dahlia
Say something”
Nothing answered them

Thrusters coughing embers
Guidance losing ground
Charts turned into riddles
Lines that looped around
One by one
The gardens
Bloomed in failing light
Oxygen like hourglass sand
Bleeding through the night

Long lost flowers
Thrown into the dark
Petals made of steel
Searching for a spark
Three bright whispers
Across a frozen sky
The long lost flowers
Left up there to die

Years will pass in silence
Over where they lay
Three small metal flowers
Drifting far away
Children learn their story
Trace it in the stars
Long lost flowers
Names burned into the dark