Name: Flower Stand
Duration: 2 min 10 s
Channel: Daniel P. Raymer
Description: "Flower Stand" is a song by Dan and David Raymer. "Then the lightning filled the air, walls of fire everywhere..." An unusual anti-war song, about nano-robotic warfare - the silent killing things.

Flower Stand

Dan and David Raymer

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"Then the lightning filled the air, walls of fire everywhere..." An unusual anti-war song, about nano-robotic warfare - the silent killing things.

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Dan and David Raymer

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(to hear all our songs click on GoToTheMusicPage then on Hi-Fi) Dan (front) and David (standing) perform thoughtful original songs in an acoustic and bass guitar format with harmony vocals. This page has songs written by Dan, who played 12 and 6 string guitar, banjo, and keyboard. David played bass guitar and drum machine. Dan sang lead vocals, both shared the harmony, and David produced/engineered. Original lyrics are on the Music page (or click the "full" links). Songs are all copyright C by Dan Raymer. For some excellent songs written by David, check out Silvertown.

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic Folk

Charts

Peak #21

Peak in subgenre #5

Author

Daniel P. Raymer

Rights

2005

Uploaded

November 27, 2006

Track Files

MP3

MP3 2.0 MB • 128 kbps • 2:10

Story behind the song

It wrote itself on a train ride across the fields of Germany. For the whole story, see the book  Living In The Future by Dan Raymer (www.aircraftdesign.com/livingfuture.html)

Lyrics

In the middle of a field near a laughing silver stream
Stood a flower made of captured sun.
And it stood throughout the day not a single thing to say
And it never bothered anyone.

Then they built a factory town and the concrete hid the ground
And the flower couldn't find the sky
The air was painted gray, the raindrops couldn't play
And the laughing silver stream went dry.

Men came there every day making weapons, steel and gray
And they never got to see the sky
In the thunder and the noise building deadly grownup toys
They weren't allowed to wonder why.

Then the lightning filled the air, walls of fire everywhere
With the sounding of his wings came the silent killing things
By the coming of the dawn all the men were gone.

In the middle of a field broken concrete twisted steel
But a tiny trickle wets the clay
By the misty morning light rusty litter of the fight
But a flower stands to greet the day.

Copyright C 2005 by D. Raymer. All Rights Reserved

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