What is Flora’s Secret?

[Suedehead]

The lyrics are cryptic

Did you also know that she mentions future album title amarantine in it (DISGUSTING cover - iykyk)

 

[disneyteletubby]

Ah yeah as Amaranthine

I think it's about whatever Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison is about.

 

[jivafox]

The GRASS watched them FUCK but is going to keep it a secret

 

[Enya Dearest]

"Lovers in the long grass" sounds so dirty.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

"Lovers in the long grass" sounds so dirty.

Theresa May WOULD NEVER

 

[Suedehead]

Is the grass a metaphor for a hairy fanny tho and if so which Spire Girl did flora shag

 

[disneyteletubby]

I keep thinking 'winter chanterelle lies under cover' means something else

Oh and Victoria's not Flora's

 

[disneyteletubby]

It has grown on me as a song, good musically, and I always like how the bridge sounds like Seal's Kiss From A Rose



But lyrically it's still Roma being a bit

 

[disneyteletubby]

To purify this thread a bit and to clarify, Flora refers to the Roman goddess, slyly observing the lovers.

𖤓 Flora by Evelyn de Morgan, 1894.

(I saw the original painting in person ♡ which is located in Wolverhampton but painted in Florence, Italy )️

The model for her was someone Evelyn knew and did many life drawings of (see note below haha)

Also a close-up of the inscription (in Italian I think; can anyone here translate?)

That's Flora's Secret

 

[Sheena]

That it's not butter, it's margarine

 

[disneyteletubby]

Interesting (?)

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'Tears from Persia' in the lyrics could be referring to Roma's daughter? (She'd have been in her late teens. All that 'young love' stuff that admittedly as a young person, I cannot relate to )

 

[disneyteletubby]

Oh wait in 2000 Enya was interviewed by the American bookseller Barnes and Noble, and said this