Blume

Chrysanthemum For you I am a chrysanthemum
Supernova, urgent star

Astera Compositae For you I'll be a dandelion
A thousand flowerettes in the sky
Or just a drop in the ocean

If you know my name
Don't speak it out
It holds a power - as before

Liliacea A lily of the valley
A flower of saron*

Helianthus annus For you I even be a sunflower
Do you hear my enlightening laughter?
Another reason to cut off an ear

You know my name, do you not?
Don't say it
For it is sacred, immovable - frozen

Rosa, Anemone et Nymphea Alba I'll even be a waterlily,
A marygold**, a rose
Or a little thistle

Euphorbia a blue dahlia, a black tulip***
That's where opinions differ
The scholars disagree

My name, should you know it
Remains unspeakable
And is spoken - malediction

[Last line in Libanese]
Einstürzende Neubauten, Tabula Rasa.

* "I am only a flower in the plain of Saron, a lily from the valleys." (Solomon's Song of Songs, 2/1-2).

** Written by drummer Dave Grohl, Marigold is the only song Nirvana officially released that had no contribution from lead vocalist and guitarist Kurt Cobain. Contrary to popular rumors, Cobain does not play drums on this track. Dave Grohl plays all instruments with the exception of bass, handled by Krist Novoselic.

*** [...] and other experts insist that true, absolute black is actually impossible to achieve. It was in 1850 that Alexander Dumas, famed French author of such bestsellers as The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers and The Man in the Iron Mask, first created a fervor of popular excitement for the most elusive (indeed unobtainable!) exotic flower with his novel The Black Tulip, a romantic tale in which a fictional black tulip figures in a love story laced with murder, torture, greed, dastardly intrigue, and sudden surprises. [...] The central theme of the book, the quest to hybridize the elusive and valuable black tulip, has persisted in the imagination of flower lovers everywhere. But ultimately, the quest for the black tulip became more. Dumas makes the black tulip an emblem of justice and right, which are Nature’s ultimate gift to ungrateful mortals."