The Flower Dance Songtext
von Nite Fleit

The word play and the word game have many levels of meaning
We are accustomed to use the word play in opposition to work
And to regard play as trivial and work as serious
Very largely a game or a play is something

Associated in our minds with triviality
You′re only playing with me, you're not serious
When do we say this is getting serious?
When we′re holding hands, playing footsies under the
Table, kissing, sleeping together, married and babies?
Maybe that's serious
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha


We also use the word play in a non-trivial sense
The very highest kind of art form, it's still play
I′m not being serious, but I am being sincere

Now what do people like?
They like to get together and do something rhythmic
Our very existence is a rhythm of
Waking and sleeping, eating and moving
What′s it all about?
Dances
The giraffe dance, the flower dance, the bee dance, the human dance
Does it really mean anything? Does it go anywhere?

You can get a certain vision of life where
Everything is seen to be a complex pattern of rhythm
And that's what this all is, it′s jazz
And what it's trying to do is to be our jazzed-up again