Story Behind The Song

There is a real island in Lake Windermere that had its last flower picked by tourists

Song Description

lost love

Lyrics

THAT LAST FLOWER
Words and Music by Daniel Curzon
Copyright 2018

Verse # 1:
You picked the very last one of those.
I warned you, begged you not to be so cruel.
You said for every flower gone, yet another grows.
I answered sharply that you were a fool.

Verse # 2:
So now there are no more, I said,
And will become forgotten and extinct.
But soon -- you joked -- I too, my critic, will be dead.
And pulled my ear and smiled at me and winked.

Chorus:
That last flower on that isle in Windermere,
Your need for it was so sincere.
I remember it was raining.
It was the only one remaining.
Ah, to have that flower near,
To hold it for an hour, dear!
Even just one petal-- I would not be complaining
So. So! So.
Verse # 3:
Before long, your joke became the truth.
It seemed a year, but it took just a week.
How quickly withered in your lovely, darling youth,
You went from fresh and wild to frail and weak.

REPEAT CHORUS

Verse # 4:
The world will not forgive your crime.
But I would give a thousand flowers, oh,
If I could hold you, even in my grave, one more time
And join with you until more flowers grow.

REPEAT CHORUS

Ending:
Ah, to have that flower here,
To hold it for an hour, dear.
Even just one petal -- I would not be complaining
So. So! . . . So . . .