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The Flowers on Our Backs

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[Omar]

In these lyrics, I use of the imagery of flowers as a visible analogy for the pain and guilt that is burdened on our shoulders, as if they were floral-themed tattoos similar to the Japanese Irezumi. I like using flowers as metaphors for tough and hurtful events, as well as the idea of having that guilt depicted as a something that you take with you everywhere you go for the rest of your life, something that has been stamped on your skin through pain. Like a tattoo; like the thorns of a flower. At times we feel this weight, this pain and we don’t even know its meaning or its origin, which makes the burden even greater.

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What do we hold on our backs?
What do we heave onto our shoulders?

The flowers of redemption.
The flowers of isolation.
The flowers of a reckless action
Trying to provide a necessary negotiation.

We tried to understand
Why we have this on us.
Is the weight of the Sun
Burning our necks?

The flowers on our backs.

Are heavier than all the stars.
The meaninglessness of trust
Is carrying all this rust
And is burning our necks.

The flowers on our backs.

So what do we hold on our backs?
And why?

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from Ernia, released December 7, 2018

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Ernia Logroño, Spain

Ernia is a five-piece death/grind band formed in Logroño, Spain by a group of weirdo friends with a shared love for fast music and dumb jokes.

We play death-metal infused grindcore for socially ill-adjusted people like us.

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