Baker's Globe Mallow

[Verse]

We were driving, following the river

A Northern California get away

A burned-down forest, tree trunks and ashes

Must've blazed up like a bail of hay

So we left the car beside the road

And wandered in desolation



[Verse]

Watercolor, baker's globe mallow

Hollyhock, the dawn, and the wasteland

Purple splashes, hope among the ashes

Just enough to hold in your hand



[Chorus]

Some kind of flowers only bloom

After the burn...

We will return



[Verse]

We slept on the ground

The wind was howling like a ghost

When we got back home

There were ashes in our hair and clothes



[Verse]

Now I'm older, look out at the mountains

Watch how the colors slowly changed

I remember the baker's globe mallow

How I never looked at life the same



[Chorus]

Some kind of flowers only bloom

After the burn...

We will return



[Interlude]



[Outro]

Some kind of flowers only bloom

After the burn...

We will return