Verse 1] Well, I came along to find a little peace of mind Neglecting all my duties, stepping off that straightened line Now I just sit by my front door filled with indolence and sound It's like I'm watching the weeds grow on my brow And I had a pure (PURE) potential in a soiled white shirt With love enough to kill me, but was unsure of its worth And though the night is sweetened by some rising of the moon I've lived enough to know the battle's never through [Chorus] You pass something down, no matter where or how Will there be weeds or wildflowers affixed upon your bows And there's a crooked burning cigarette rolling on your tongue Will there be weeds or wildflowers when you're done Verse 2] Remember you traveled through the desert, you traveled to the sea Looking out on some horizon, asking what you mean to me And we all hang around with a free or toiled mind While all of our branches entwined And as I watch the brick erode from day to day The leaves change their colors and the loft fills with hay As a blade of sunshine cuts across my chest The blood beneath boils with unrest [Chorus] You pass something down, no matter where or how Will there be weeds or wildflowers affixed upon your bows And there's a crooked burning cigarette rolling on your tongue Will there be weeds or wildflowers when you're done La la, la la, la-ah (x4) [Verse 3] Blown about by the wind, a worthless little thing But the world can feel the changes of a butterfly's wing And so that crooked burning cigarette rolling on your tongue Will leave its weeds before your flowers yet have sprung Will there be weeds or wildflowers when you're done
I was at an after-work outing in the 90's, maybe at Bill's Bar, when The Strangemen landed and invaded the stage. I vaguely recall hearing them on the radio. Probably WFNX, which was my main music feed back then. Channel2000 was on heavy rotation in my CD player for quite awhile... www.allmusic.com/album/channel-2000-original-television-pilot-mw0000092370
Absolutely love the story of this song. The heartbreak of thinking everything is good only to find out it’s not…and then to hear “…welcome home, come home…”.
I don’t get it then. It has been fine for years until recently. Now I get no sound when the rest of RU-vid is fine. Oh well. Thanks for checking on it.
