My Heart Is a Flower

"My Heart Is a Flower" is a song by avant-garde band King Missile. It was the only single from the band's 1991 album The Way to Salvation.

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In "My Heart Is a Flower," a pop rock track with elements of psychedelic rock, frontman John S. Hall repeatedly sings the titular phrase, recites a short monologue expanding on the heart-as-flower metaphor, then returns to singing the titular phrase as the music crescendoes.

In an interview circa 1992, Hall explained his inspiration for the song as follows:

...[W]hen I really, really feel very bad, what I want to do is make myself feel better, so I'll write something happier. 'My Heart Is a Flower' is really a funny song. I was very, very sad when I wrote that one and a lot of people find that surprising. But I felt really, really trampled on, like a flower that's been thrown down in the dirt, when I wrote that.

Music video

The video for "My Heart Is a Flower" was directed by Phil Morrison. During the parts of the video that accompany the sung sections of the song, the band performs in a large, colorful garden, with multi-instrumentalist Chris Xefos often playing in a bear costume. During the part of the video that accompanies the spoken section, Hall plays chutes and ladders in a dimly lit room with a woman played by Juliana Hatfield. The woman flosses her teeth before narrowly avoiding a kiss from Hall.

References

1. King Missile
2. Jesus Was Way Cool
3. Sweet Adeline (song)
4. Be Careful with My Heart
5. Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?
6. Hearts & Flowers
7. Flower Duet
8. Wildwood Flower
9. Pleasures of the Harbor
10. List of Korean dramas
11. Miyoshi Umeki
12. Ernest (singer)
13. Jang Hyuk
14. Septimus Winner
15. My Cute Guys
16. Apple of my eye
17. List of plants with symbolism
18. Hydrangea
19. Viola tricolor
20. My Mind's Flower Rain