Flowers On A Grave

This tormented rocker finds Bush lead singer Gavin Rossdale covered in loneliness like flowers on a grave. "Every song is just a different mood of where I'm at and what I'm feeling," he said in a Songfacts interview. "I write about emotions, and we all experience similar emotions: fear, pain, loss, joy, hope. All those deep emotions are around us all the time, and they're all trading places consistently."

This song was written before the coronavirus took hold, but soon after it was released, much of the world was under quarantine. Lyrically, it fit the mood, as many of us were feeling lonely and depressed. Rossdale certainly didn't anticipate this when he wrote it, but he's found many of his songs portend to moods and events that later occur.

Bush got to perform this song just once - at the House Of Blues in Las Vegas on February 28, 2020 - before the coronavirus pandemic wiped out any further concerts. The band went ahead and released the song on March 4 and posted the video on March 18, but they pushed back the album release, which was scheduled for May. Rossdale wanted the album to be part of the celebration when the pandemic ceased. "It's going to be a global party," he said in his Songfacts interview. "And when you have a big record like this to go with it, when people gather together again for big festivals or big shows, that's the sign that we've really beaten the virus and we've come back stronger."