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Eleven – Reach Out Lyrics 14 years ago
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Eleven – Reach Out Lyrics 14 years ago
After reading this interview about his new album Spark and his songwriting in general, I think that this song is written about a flower and its cycle of life:

"We (the band Eleven) tried to be simple like a poem, whether it was in tone form or from a different perspective, like the perspective of a flower or a plant and what's that like, for example the impulse of reaching toward the sun while carried on the back of a bee."

The other images that seemed confusing now make sense too:
The plant gains the energy to break out of its core and grow towards the sun.
"kiss from my mother": Mother Earth nourishing the flower
"smile at my father": the flower growing towards the sky (which fertilizes the ground with rain)/or God
"My colors displayed": the flower in full bloom
"On the back of a bee...": The bees transport the pollen, and thereby the cycle begins anew

Interesting how one small change of perspective can make all the pieces fall into place...

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