All the cries that you hear are the signals of pain And the broken remains of a Cherokee plane Lie shivering out in the cold mountain rain And no one appears to be hearing The radio crackles with pure white noise And the bears dance around the clearing Dancing around the flowers of the sea Such a dangerous scent is the perfume of hate That infiltrates down through the chancery gate And wafts through the window a moment too late For anyone there to prevent it For such is politeness, frustrated and kind Even though it may resent it When perfumed like the flowers of the sea Mmm... U-38 slipped through the blockade With the one mistake that the cruiser made And the voice tube crew was unafraid And so was Captain Lee Bay And then the death charge carried his turn away Auf Wiedersehen, 38 For you were only flowers of the sea Mmm... The Welsh medallion dangled and hung Its crimson dragon in the midday sun Was sweating the way its mother had done And she had been a merino She came to rest upon a guardsman's chest Underneath the tree so green-oh Another tender flower of the sea Mmm... All the light that comes from the spotlight's beam Is sometimes so diffuse it seems To waste the time of the air it cleans If indeed it cares of being poor Why cannot light be a laser bright And the moon's but a keyhole Peering at the flowers of the sea Mmm... Mmm... Mmm... Mmm... Mmm... Mmm... On the wild mosaic in Pharaoh's tomb Kissed the eken or made boom And placed a crown on he for whom The broken stones were scattered For Pharaoh was a man who could admit To being flattered Commending all the flowers of the sea Mmm... Mmm... John was a white and honest man At least he was when this began But then Muhammad's greatest fan Turned him into a heathen His car became a mobile tomb And now the odds are even And John has joined the flowers of the sea Mmm... All the moths awoke and saw the sun And with a rush they rose as one But with no power to stop them from Their sun-turned tale in town But still some light is left to see Upon the high Sierra Where still the growing flowers of the sea Mmm... Mmm... Mmm... Mmm... Mmm... Mmm...