[lyrics by Andrew Buller, tune by suno.com - created in Canterbury, Kent - 24/10/24] [short instrumental] look to the poppies for there you find peace [short instrumental] this time, in case left was wasn't the path I shouldn't have trodden while reading that poem about the other path left overgrown outgrown never known how the contradictions could have come back home to haunt me [short instrumental] contra to aversion and adversaries contra to diversion and visionaries contra to diction and dictionaries contra to all meaning I mean it I don't have to solve it all (I was never meant to solve it all) contradiction is good for complexion contradiction is good conversation [short instrumental] we all live and breathe in contradictions convictions and confessions confessions and obsessions obsessions and observations of the mind eroding of the cove creating contradictions [short instrumental] when I begin to walk through its sands I see it all and yet I see nothing as soon as I try to grasp it it slips through the fingers like shadows behind the glass of forgotten memories like the breaths of wind I wish I could breathe again and this time breathe right [short instrumental] contra to aversion and adversaries contra to diversion and visionaries contra to diction and dictionaries contra to all meaning I mean it I don't have to solve it all (I was never meant to solve it all) contradiction is good for complexion contradiction is good conversation [short instrumental] can we find a place a space to embrace contradictions explore contradictions celebrate contradictions be contradictions [short instrumental] I will never write anything perfectly yet why do I worry what they think of me and what these words are saying to them when I don't even know what they're saying to me when I don't even know who what where when or why (why, why?) I simply go around and around in circles again in my mind field of contradictions (mind field of contradictions) [short instrumental] the poppies nodding they remember they know [instrumental] contra to aversion and adversaries contra to diversion and visionaries contra to diction and dictionaries contra to all meaning I mean it I don't have to solve it all (I was never meant to solve it all) contradiction is good for complexion contradiction is good conversation [short instrumental] the flowers always know they never strive to thrive so comfortable in the skin of their own contradictions death is their seed to life yet why are the flowers cut down in their prime for the graves of our dead? why don't we scatter their seeds instead? and learn from them and their silence their silent, suffering triumphs [short instrumental] look to the poppies for there you find peace there you find peace