Sunflowers And Leather Lyrics by Jonah Kagen
I was born in a field of sunflowers and I didn’t feel a thing
Rhinestone pine straw and birds with a song to sing
I grew up with love in the walls and concrete beneath my feet
Why would I ever leave this place when sunflowers are all that I see?
Then I met a traveler, told me the world’s much bigger than this
And he showed me his leather jacket and the handcuffs he broke off his wrist
So I snuck out the back door
Said, “I’m never coming back.”
But Mama stopped me from the window and she said, “Go, but don’t forget what you have.”
She said, “Be careful with them girls
Honey, it’s a wild, wild world.”
Yeah
So I got drunk in a school zone
And I ran from the cops
I thought man this is living ain’t it
I ain’t never, I ain’t never gonna stop
I got *** up in New York
I got low in Tennessee
It took bleeding on a bathroom floor to remember what my mama said to me
She said, “Be careful with them girls
Honey, it’s a wild, wild world.”
And if I’m going soon, I wanna leave something
If I’m going soon, I wanna do it right
And when I go, all that I’m leaving
Is all my love behind
And when I die I want my life to look like blue skies and rain
Sunflowers and leather is the way