Leave Us a Flower
WV2277/2025
Watercolours and ecoline ink on Steinbach paper.
"This is a song for the people who worry
That tomorrow people will be dead
This is a song for the dead of tomorrow
Buried, coffered in a desert of stone
Leave us a flower and some grass that's still green
Leave us a tree and the view of the sea
Forget for once how much money a million is
The world, it has to last an eternity…
You break and you chop and you bore through the mountains
You make every hill equal with the ground
Today's giants seem like dwarfs tomorrow
Progress destroys what stood yesterday
The fish in the seas poisoned, dead
The sand on the beaches polluted by fuel oil
And you, spoiled by the tankers and checkbooks
You don't even know where the seagull nested
And so life will disappear tomorrow
Defeated by steel and reinforced concrete
The moon will then shine cold on your nightmare
No one still knows how the end began
Leave us a flower and some grass that's still green is
Leave us a tree and the view of the sea
Forget for once how much money a million is
The world must last forever…
It must last forever…"
A song by Louis Neefs, "Leave us a flower," 1970
Leave Us a Flower
WV2277/2025
Watercolours and ecoline ink on Steinbach paper.
"This is a song for the people who worry
That tomorrow people will be dead
This is a song for the dead of tomorrow
Buried, coffered in a desert of stone
Leave us a flower and some grass that's still green
Leave us a tree and the view of the sea
Forget for once how much money a million is
The world, it has to last an eternity…
You break and you chop and you bore through the mountains
You make every hill equal with the ground
Today's giants seem like dwarfs tomorrow
Progress destroys what stood yesterday
The fish in the seas poisoned, dead
The sand on the beaches polluted by fuel oil
And you, spoiled by the tankers and checkbooks
You don't even know where the seagull nested
And so life will disappear tomorrow
Defeated by steel and reinforced concrete
The moon will then shine cold on your nightmare
No one still knows how the end began
Leave us a flower and some grass that's still green is
Leave us a tree and the view of the sea
Forget for once how much money a million is
The world must last forever…
It must last forever…"
A song by Louis Neefs, "Leave us a flower," 1970