Greenhouse
Written by Dewey Bunnell, Bill Mumy, and Robert Haimer, ©1994
Found on
Hourglass and
Highway.
In the greenhouse
Among the flowers
You would linger, linger there for hours
That's where I saw your face
Your body dressed in lace
Your secret hiding place
In the greenhouse
What were you thinking
Was this the jungle?
I felt the good earth, I felt the good earth rumble
That's where I saw your face
Your body dressed in lace
Your secret hiding place
In the greenhouse
That's where I saw your face
Your body dressed in lace
Your secret hiding place
In the greenhouse
You were smiling
The heat was rising
The blood-red roses hypnotizing
In the greenhouse
You were waiting
And the perfume was suffocating
That's where I saw your face
Your body dressed in lace
Your secret hiding place
In the greenhouse
Highway Highlight (from the box set booklet)
On the rockier side of things was "Greenhouse," a Bunnell/Mumy/Haimer tune.
"That was an older song, from the late '80s," says Dewey. "Mumy has a version
on one of his records, which is better than ours. My wife at the time had
actually gotten a small greenhouse at the house, and she was considering
raising orchids. I liked the imagery; it made me think of the thick scent of
a greenhouse, and the idea of it as a kind of trysting place. It's got that
steamy, sexual thing going."
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