LEAVE THEM A FLOWER

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Song Title
LEAVE THEM A FLOWER
Writers
Whyton
Publisher
CHESHIRE MUSIC, INC. (BMI)
Co-Publisher
TRO Affiliate
% Publisher Controls
100%
Territory Controlled
US AND CANADA
Themes/Keywords
Animals, Children, Deforestation, Earth, Future, Gardening, Generation, Gift, Industrialization, Natural Disaster, Nature, Pollution
Lyrics
I speak on behalf of the next generation:
My sons and daughters, their children to come.
What will you leave them for their recreation,
An oil slick, a pylon, an industrial slum?

Chorus:
Leave Them A Flower, some grass and a hedge-row,
A hill and a valley, a view to the sea.
These things are not yours to destroy as you want to,
A gift given once for eternity.

You plunder and pillage, you tear and you tunnel,
Trees lying toppled, roots finger and sky.
Building a land for machines and computers.
In the name of progress and farms have to die.

Chorus

Fish in the ocean polluted and poisoned,
The sand on the beaches stinking and black.
And you with your tankers, your banks and investments
Say: “Never worry, the birds will come back.”

Chorus

When the last flower has dropped its last petal,
When the last concrete is finally laid,
The moon will shine cold on a nightmarish landscape,
Your gift to our children, this world that you made.
A gift given once for eternity.

Chorus

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