Cover Me With Flowers - David Sylvian

Hold your head up sonny boy

Let the earth dry on it It won’t hurt you

It won’t hurt you

Tell me something sonny boy

Baptised and plunged

Is it worth it?

It must be worth it Hold your head up sonny boy

Let the earth dry on it It won’t hurt you

It won’t hurt you

Let’s renew the promise

Break our wings upon it If in peace there’s power

Cover me with flowers

Tie your shoelace little girl

Time is waiting on it And when it’s over

And when it’s over???

I can offer nothing

This nothing’s everlasting

I could be Shiva lying

Beneath ferocious darkness

My heart’s devoured

Cover me with flowers

Let me see the face

Of all enduring grace

Let me take a crack at All that matters

And in the weightless hours

Cover me with flowers

Cover me with flowers