Joe Henry - Mean Flower lyrics

How beautiful you've made yourself How cruel you've become, How so much like another That it's no surprise That i don't recognize you now so Beautiful and cruel You're the meanest flower You raise me off the ground To see how far there is to fall, As if i don't remember How we pa**ed the time, As if i don't remember how Your face fell into mine Oh, you're the meanest flower Notice how i vanish And your world remains, You show your head above it For spite, nothing more, Like you thought just living Was somehow its own reward You're the meanest flower