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Sunflower Wildman (Remember Him?)

Lyrics:

he has wings
he has hands
he has lungs
he's the sunflower wild man

he has hats to express
any vision
not feeling a thing

cling like a fly to the acorn
sunflower king

discuss with the voices inside
what a new day will bring

in the hear of the horoscopes
flashing for children
the king flies

he is leaping down off
of the ceiling and behind the sink

climbing the sunflower stalks
for an oxygen drink
back to the curtain call
nobody cares what you think

what makes the hot house enticing?

groundskeeper, actors and lords of astrology
lost in it's ever evolving technology...

sunflower wild man, remember him?
very strange and frightening old man
who used to live by and within himself at the foot of the street, next to the wood...
he had encouraged all the weeds and plants in his front yard to grow very tall,
around and over his bungalow so that from the street, one would hardly notice that
it was there...
children would ride bicycles to his property and as a test of bravery, one of them
would be chosen, or would volunteer to run in to the yard, extract one of his
sunflowers from garden, and with it run back to the bicycle for escape...

...and the old man would burst forth from the front door entrance, shirtless, a small
dirty white beanie on his head, in swift and terrifying pursuit...

...and then...one day...some of the children rode out to his house to find that all
the weeds and plants and sunflowers had been uprooted and cleared out...and his
house had been completely leveled to the ground.
...and no one had any explanation as to what had happened to him or where he
had gone...

it was nearly the end of that particular summer...and very shortly thereafter, a
brand new ranch style brick home stood in the lot that not so long before had been
the house and home to the legend of The Sunflower Wild Man of Greenview Plat...

...rumor has it that now, some 40 years later, the entire east section of that old
neighborhood is to be the site of a new Target...

Appears On:

Artist	Title	Year	Format	Label	Catalog #
Circus Devils	Laughs Best (The Kids Eat It Up)	2017	2 LP + DVD	Happy Jack Rock Records	HJRR-34
Circus Devils	Laughs Best (The Kids Eat It Up)	2017	CD + DVD	Happy Jack Rock Records	HJRR-34
Circus Devils	Stomping Grounds	2015	LP	Happy Jack Rock Records	HJRR-33
Circus Devils	Stomping Grounds	2015	CD	Happy Jack Rock Records	HJRR-33
Circus Devils	Girl In Space/Sunflower Wildman (Remember Him?)	2015	7" Single	Happy Jack Rock Records	HJRR-32