Wildflower-NOA

[ti:Wildflower] [ar:NOA] [al:Noa] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Wildflower (Album Version) - NOA [00:26.45]In a tenement near the Henry Hudson River [00:29.82]From my favorite spot on a rusting fire escape [00:34.63]I would look below. [00:36.94]And see Mario [00:39.81]Braving the ferocious dandelions [00:44.55]Mario, our fearless superintendent [00:47.55]Kept the garden green, despite the parkway smog [00:52.10]But the flowering weeds [00:54.22] [00:54.85]Their fates decreed [00:57.41]Pulled, to keep his rosebush from dying [01:01.71]Then I would creep inside, curl up in my bed [01:06.33]Something strong was pulling at my head [01:09.82]Pulling at my heart [01:11.78] [01:15.96]Wild flower, growing in all the wrong places [01:19.14]Wild flower, so lonely ‘neath that lovely rose bush [01:24.13]Proper garden’s nightmare, queen of opened fields [01:28.00]Tell me, who will love this wildflower [01:32.74]For exactly what she is? [01:35.72] [01:44.84]Years passed by, we left that red brick building [01:48.02]Left Mario behind [01:50.52]For a brand new house [01:52.51]But my dark brown skin [01:55.45]On the white washed walls within [01:58.01]Stood out, so it’d get me up and cryin’ [02:02.44]My growing pains had many rooms to fill, then [02:05.49]Mother never know [02:07.68]..Had a garden to keep clean [02:09.99]While there was NY grease [02:13.29]On her young flower from the Middle East [02:15.79]She was busy pulling dendelions [02:20.10]Then I would creep inside, curl up in my bed [02:23.53]Something strong was pulling at my head [02:27.66]Pulling at my heart [02:30.03]Pulling at my heart [02:33.40] [02:33.93]Wild flower, growing in all the wrong places [02:37.36]Wild flower, so lowly ‘neath that lovely rosebush [02:42.36]Proper garden’s nightmare, queen of opened fields [02:46.22]Tell me, who will love this wildflower [02:49.99] [02:50.87]For exactly what she is? [02:53.36]Wild flower, growing in all the wrong places [02:57.67]Wild flower, so lowly ‘neath that lovely rosebush [03:01.97]Proper garden’s nightmare, queen of opened fields [03:06.34]Tell me, who will love this wildflower [03:10.15] [03:10.77]For exactly what she is?