Flowering Cadaver

Hidden deep in the Sumatran jungle

lives the mystical titan arum

The natives call it "bunga bangkai"

A behemoth among all plants

Strange enough that years pass before it even flowers

Stranger still that the flower emits

the putrid stench of rotting flesh

Bunga bangkai!

Like the titan arum,

you only show your good side every few years

On the inside like a rotting corpse,

on the outside like a flowering cadaver

The heart is wicked and deceitful

Magnificent spectral florescence hides the inner sinful man

Jungle orphan hindered at noon, never peering out,

calmly hovers over Nusa Tenggara

Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing

Out of the same heart comes beauty and ugliness

The very thing that I want to do, I end up doing the opposite

Out of the same mouth comes building up and tearing down

Out of the same heart comes kindness and cruelty

The very thing that I want to do, I end up doing the opposite

Bunga bangkai - flowering cadaver

Bunga bangkai