I was walking in the Wholesale Flower District that day
And I passed by this place where this old chinese man
He sometimes sells me weird and exotic cuttings
'Cuase he knows, you see that, well, strange plants are my hobby

He didn't have anything unusual there that day
So I was just about to, you know, walk on by
When suddenly, and without warning,
There was this
(Total eclipse of the Sun)

It got very dark
And there was this strange humming sound,
Like something from another world

And when the light came back this weird plant was just sitting there
Just, you know, stuck in, uh-among the zinias
I coulda sworn it hadn't been there before
But the old chinese man sold it to me anyways
For a dollar-ninty-five