Sunflower Wildman (Remember Him?) Songtext
von Circus Devils

He has wings
He has hands
He has lungs
He′s the sunflower wildman
He has hats to express any vision
Not feeling a thing
Cling like a fly on the acorn sunflower king
Discuss with the voices inside what a new day will bring

In the heart of the horoscopes
Flashing for children the king flies
He is leaping down off of the ceiling
And behind the sink
Climbing the sunflower stalks for an oxygen drink
Back to the curtain call, nobody cares what you think

What makes the hothouse enticing?
Groundskeeper actors and lords of astrology
Lost in its ever evolving technology

Sunflower wildman


Very strange and frightening old man
Who used to live by and within himself at

The end of the street next to the woods
He had encouraged all the weeds and plants
In his front yard to grow very tall
Around and over his bungalow
So that from the street
One would hardly notice that it was even there

Children would ride bicycles to his property
And as a test of bravery
One of them would be chosen
Or would volunteer to run into the yard
Extract one of his sunflowers from the garden
And with it run back to the bicycle for escape

And the old man would burst forth from the front door entrance
Shirtless
A small dirty white beanie on his head
In swift and terrifying pursuit

And then

One day


Some of the children rode out to his house
To find that all of the weeds and plants and sunflowers
Had been uprooted and cleared out
And his house had been completely leveled to the ground
And no one had any explanation as to what
Had happened to him or where he had gone

It was nearly at the end of that particular summer
And very shortly thereafter
A brand new ranch style brick home
Stood in the lot that not so long before had been house and home
To the legend of the sunflower wildman of Greenview Plat

Rumor has it now that some forty years later
The entire east section of that old
Neighborhood is to be the site of a new Target