菊花夜行軍

Considering that the chrysanthemum symbolizes joy and resilience, the flower's meaning is quite ironic in this painful tale of a rural world lost to modernity. The main-character farmer in this concept album leaves his agrarian life for industrial work in the city, exchanging a rural existence for an urban one, with obvious commentary on the fickleness of bubble economics. From the farm to the city and then back to the farm, but a return to a region consumed by a globalist greed hoping to cash in on the demand for chrysanthemums. Beautiful vocals full of longing, accompanied by pensive guitars and strings.