Flower Song

Flower Song is an unreleased song by the Mountain Goats. It was originally to be released on Nothing for Juice, but it did not make the final cut. A version of it was reportedly posted on the Last Plane to Jakarta forums by John Darnielle with "Pure Crystal" for download sometime before 2011.

Lyrics

Selling new flowers outrageously cheap
Freshly cut daisies, twenty five cents each
You loved me when you could keep your losses down
But winter's coming around now
Now, now, now

The girl at the flower shop is kind and young
She made accurate change for me
I let the change come
And you loved me when it was cheap to do so
Can you feel the cold wind blow now
Now, now, now

Live Shows this Song Was Played at

Internet releases by John Darnielle

Exclusive: "Acceptable Damages Sutra" • "All Devils Here Now" • "Ballad of the Errant Scallop" • "The Big Unit" • "Brandy Let's Go" • "Bride" • "Counting Song for Bitter Children" • "Cut Off Their Thumbs #1" • "Deserters" • "Down Here Where the Bullet Bills Are" • "Extreme South #1" • "Flower Song" • "For the Krishnacore Bands" • "From TG&Y" • "Going Back to California" • "Going Invisible" • "Hye Kye" • "Like Possums" • "New Mountain Goats Tape Song" • "New World Emerging Blues" • "Pure Crystal" • "Short Song for Justin Bieber and His Paparazzi" • "Shot, Repeatedly, At Close Range, In the Chest, By Your Love" • "Sign of the Crow 2" • "Song for Sasha Banks" • "There Is Power in a Union" • "Thucydides II-58" • "Tyler Lambert's Grave"• "The Ultimate Jedi Who Wastes All the Other Jedi and Eats Their Bones" • "You and Me and a High Balcony" Released elsewhere: "Alibi • "Daniel 12:8 (first)" • "Exegetic Chains" • "For the Snakes" • "If You See Light" • "Let Me Bathe in Demonic Light" • "Michael Myers Resplendent" • "No Children" • "Ox Baker Triumphant" • "Surrounded" • "Until Olympius Returns" • "Wait for You"