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Bring me flowers now while I’m living.
I don’t need your love when I’m gone.
Don’t spend time, tears and money on my old breathless body.
If your heart is them flowers, bring ’em on.
These are the words of that great philosopher and country music singer, Tanya Tucker.
A friend of hers had died, and someone suggested they bring flowers for the deceased.
Tanya thought about this a moment. As she reflected on her dying friend, Tanya realised a simple aspirational truth about her own life (and inevitable death), an aspirational truth that inspired her to write these words to this song:
