My Heart Is a Flower

"My Heart Is a Flower"
Single by King Missile
from the album The Way to Salvation
Released	1991
Genre	Avant-garde, pop rock, psychedelic rock
Length	2:36
Label	Atlantic
Writer(s)	John S. Hall, Dave Rick
Producer	King Missile, Lou Giordano
King Missile singles chronology
"Jesus Was Way Cool" (1990) "My Heart Is a Flower" (1991) "Detachable Penis" (1992)

"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.

Content

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.^[1]

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.[2]

”

Music video

The video for "My Heart Is a Flower" was directed by Phil Morrison.^[3] 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.^[4]

References

1. ^ "Lyrics: My Heart Is a Flower". Farmboy's King Missile. http://www.i-mockery.com/kingmissile/heart.html. Retrieved 2008-05-28. 
2. ^ Fleiss, Elein. "A Sensitive Singer: An Interview with John S. Hall of King Missile". http://adaweb.com/~purple/kingm.html. Retrieved 2008-09-10. 
3. ^ "Videography". Laundry Lists of Nonsense. http://www.uptoolate.com/rick/km/video.html. Retrieved 2008-05-28. 
4. ^ "Video: My Heart Is a Flower". YouTube. 2006-11-11. http://youtube.com/watch?v=FelB4qgJ6cs. Retrieved 2008-05-28.