When they found your body

Giant X’s on your eyes

With your half of the ransom

You bought some sweet, sweet, sweet

Sweet sunflowers

And gave them to the night

Underneath the Star of David

A hundred years behind my eyes

With my half of the ransom

I bought some sweet, sweet, sweet

Sweet sunflowers

And gave them to the night.

This song comes to me in the form of a cover. The original song is by a band called “Low”, I heard it from Dallas Green covering it. There are aspects of this song I still don’t understand, and at first listen I thought it was a sad song, it sounds sad, it must be sad. I no longer thing it’s sad, I think it’s beautiful and happy.

To me sunflowers represent hope. They represent positivity, and beauty. They represent faith, and devotion.

To me in a way the person singing is singing about how them and their other half are not in a great place, so to try to turn things around they each took their half and bought sunflowers. They gave the sunflowers to the night as a bargaining chip.

They gave the sunflowers as a symbol of hope.

Hope for better things to come.

Hope for them to be in a better place.

Hope for them to work it out.

Unfortunately in the song we never find out if all the hope worked in their favor, if the night shed mercy on them, and brought them back together.

Looking at the moon gives me a bit of anxiety if I’m honest, I know that sounds stupid. I also know I’m missing out.

Sometimes in the night when I can’t sleep I wish I had a sunflower to trade for hope. That the night would spare me and let some of my worry ease up.

Sunflowers are hopeful, they always face the light and stand tall.

Even in dark times sunflowers are looking for the light, they’re facing it best they can.

We should all be more like sunflowers,

Searching for the light.

Where the skies are gold not gray, J.