Fresh Stems Lyrics

Bouquets came to your front door often

Delivered to you in hopes to soften

Your day, the blow, your fate, I don't know

Then one day a green plant arrived

I said, "with our black thumbs, let's keep this one alive"

With sunlight, and water and love from a daughter

Fresh cut flowers, they always fade

Not a welcome reminder in these days

They hint at the closure, lamenting over,

As the end draws closer, fresh stems, no sir

The plant grew stronger as you faded

Like those fresh stems we always hated

Cut off, at the root, god, what will I do?

The care was easy to tell you the truth

Why couldn't the same instructions help you?

Sunlight, and water, and love from a daughter

Fresh cut flowers, they always fade

Not a welcome reminder in these days

They hint at the closure, lamenting over,

As the end draws closer, fresh stems, no sir

It sat ignored in your window sill

There was no reason to care for it still

The plant was fine, but I can't, give me time

Some time and offer love to her daughter

Some time and offer love to her daughter

It's now in my window sill and thriving

A connection to this world and me still surviving