Faded Flowers

Maybe I just have a thing for the '80's, but there are sooooo very many songs from that era that either are directly paranormal, or are hauntingly beautiful.
Here I submit to you a song that is (I think) pleasingly both.
The band is Shriekback and the song is called 'Faded Flowers'. It was featured in the 1986 B movie 'Band of the Hand'. The particular scene it was placed in, was a lead into a scene where the lead bad guy, Nestor (James Remar), tells the gorgeous young leading lady, Nikki (Lauren Holly)  to go to his bed room, take off her clothes and wait for him there. He does a line of coke, and dismisses Nikki to go to the bed room. Once there, the lights go out, it gets dark and there's an eerie blueish light glowing from the bedroom closet. As she approaches, the camera pans around to reveal Nestors' Santeria altar with a chicken sacrifice, a skull and appeasement offerings on it. Needless to say, it gets the imagination going as to how bad this situation will turn out. Faded Flowers is a hauntingly beautiful song with phrases included that I speculate are occult, but still need to confirm. The allusion to ritual and the poetic magic of the lyrics is amazing.
 Whether you like this song or not, is up to you. First I'll post lyrics and then other for you to peruse. With that... enjoy!

This is the sound of poisons
The sickness no one knows
No one is crying for us this time
Our shapes are blurring
under miracles of snow
Weave a circle 'round him three times
You have to plan your moves at these times
Our hearts are breaking
One more song to go

Chorus
These eyes are blind
This is a pure thing
These hands I kiss
Tragic as anything
These eyes are blind
This is a pure thing
All splash and hiss
Beyond my measure

Only the anacrucis
The main event remains
Shameful and naked, out there
In the great cold outdoors
We have to learn these things again
Bathe in this incandescent glow
The leap to something I don't know
There is no doubt upon us when
The greasy men come back again

Chorus

These faded flowers
Precious as memory
A veil of cloud
correct as energy
We had some good machines
But they don't work no more
I loved you once
Don't love you any more

Chorus

These faded flowers
Precious as memory
A veil of cloud
correct as energy
We had some good machines
But they don't work no more
I loved you once
Don't love you any more
(repeat)

Faded Flowers is from the 1985 album 'Oil and Gold' and was written by David Allen, Martyn Barker, Carl Marsh and Barry William Andrews.

Also, here is a link to the movie Band of the Hand. The scene with Faded Flowers can be seen from 0:30:00 - 0:33:29 The movie Band of the Hand was actually a large link, so it can be viewed on it's own link here at Paranormal Tunes.