If life is my witness
Love is my song
If nothing means no one
Then blank, I belong
If fear conquers easy
I can lead on
Milk from the flower
Blood from the dawn
So here we are
Upon your stage
The laughs we shared
The dreams we saved

Bleeding the orchid
We're bleeding the orchid
Bleeding the orchid

Blessed my weakness
Blessed my wrongs
As hate forms the sequence
Of one by one
As freedoms die easy
With suffrage the want
There's clouds in my shower
Ghosts in my arms
Youth is where you are
Faith some sinner's child

We're bleeding the orchid
We're bleeding the orchid
Bleeding the orchid

Gilded art this silent march past triumph, through alarm
So thus charmed
Does this will stand for much?
But hearts untouched, by hearts unloved

Bleeding the orchid
Bleeding the orchid
Here we are
Upon your stage
The love we share
The dreams we'll save
They're bleeding the orchid



Lyrics submitted by arpeggio, edited by JudasDenied

Track duration: 04:02


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    General Comment:There are types of orchids that will take years to flower and cost thousands of dollars. I think it is Billy expressing how his fans only want him to play and write songs like he did in the 90s. His earlier music represents the orchid and Billy is bleeding and milking it ("Milk from the flower, blood from the dawn") for the fans but that music will never come back and he wants everyone to accept that and embrace his new music. It is a perfect theme for an album released after 7 years of inactivity.
    Flag Nebuchadnezzaron December 21, 2008   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:Billy said in a recent interview that this song is meant to sound like alice in chains whom he greatly admired and its about the exploitation of grunge rock.
    Flag Grunge Era Foreveron January 13, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:I'm starting to think that they should have named this album "Machina III/Zeitgeist." It has so many of the same themes of the machinas, which revolved around how BC perceived the way his fans and the media thought about him. Even though a lot of this whole album is supposed to be about the current political climate, I think theres just as much of that theme as there is the theme that threaded the machina albums (Machina I in particular).
    Flag Dr. Don August 28, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:MY FIRST POST EVER! Be easy on me.

    I think that the beginning of the song is about BC and how he knows he's made mistakes and deserves no audience to his opinions, but that it's here if you want to hear it..

    Then I think it gets political, about how America became the best country b/c it was formed as a country based on total freedoms and came out of suffering, but how one by one they're being taken away as suffering is gone and forgotten...
    Flag FoShizzleon August 15, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:im not sure but i think that the girl holding the wound on her chest has to do with the song (she might represent the orchid... which is bleeding)
    Flag ZenfullTangerineon August 06, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:Everyone's lyrics are wrong, I just pulled the booklet out of the cd and posted the correct lyrics lol.
    Flag aptitudeon July 16, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:Whoops............I mixed one up. It should have read:

    Instead of:
    Listen audience,
    Blessed my rose,
    As hate forms a sequence,
    Of one by one.

    I hear:
    Blessed my weakness,
    Blessed my wrongs,
    As hate forms a sequence,
    Of one by one.
    Flag Modus Ponenson July 12, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:I agree with the above comment.
    I heard the same things when listening just a moment ago.
    Flag Brieviloneon July 11, 2007   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:Instead of:
    Life is my weakness,
    Love is my soul,
    If nothing means no one,
    Can play all alone.

    I hear:
    If life is my witness
    Love is my soul,
    If nothing means no one,
    And blank Avalon

    Instead of:
    If fear comes easy,
    I can lay down,
    Milk from a flower,
    Blood from a stone.

    I hear:
    If fear conquers easy,
    I can lead on,
    Milk from the flower,
    Blood from a stone.

    Instead of:
    So here we are, upon your stage,
    The lies we shared,
    The dreams we saved.

    I hear:
    So here we are, upon your stage,
    The laughs we shared,
    The dreams we saved.

    Instead of:
    Blessed my weakness,
    Blessed my wrongs,
    As hate forms a sequence,
    Of one by one.

    I hear:
    Listen audience,
    Blessed my rose,
    As hate forms a sequence,
    Of one by one.

    Instead of:
    As freedom’s not easy,
    There’s so much to want,
    There’s clouds in my shower,
    Ghosts in my home.

    I hear:
    As freedom’s die easy,
    There’s so much to want,
    There’s clouds in my shower,
    Ghosts in my home.
    Flag Modus Ponenson July 11, 2007   Link
  • -1
    General Comment:So I googled what an orchid symbolizes and arrived at the following:

    Orchid: A symbol of perfection. The spots on an orchid sometimes represent the blood of Christ.

    I agree with supernuke. I think this is a political song against the war and the death of so many young people.."we'll have some trust, we'll have some youth"
    Flag lizacorganon July 11, 2007   Link

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