This is a sequel to 2001's "Reckless Abandon", and features the band looking back on their clumsy youth fondly.
I am my mother's only one
It's enough
I wear my garment so it shows
Now you know
Only love is all maroon
Gluey feathers on a flume
Sky is womb and she's the moon
I am my mother on the wall, with us all
I move in water, shore to shore
Nothing's more
Only love is all maroon
Lapping lakes like leery loons
Leaving rope burns
Reddish rouge
Only love is all maroon
Gluey feathers on a flume
Sky is womb and she's the moon
It's enough
I wear my garment so it shows
Now you know
Only love is all maroon
Gluey feathers on a flume
Sky is womb and she's the moon
I am my mother on the wall, with us all
I move in water, shore to shore
Nothing's more
Only love is all maroon
Lapping lakes like leery loons
Leaving rope burns
Reddish rouge
Only love is all maroon
Gluey feathers on a flume
Sky is womb and she's the moon
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Just A Little Lovin'
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Garment, in respect to this song, simply means "an outer covering." I think Justin is demonstrating a wall between he and everything else in this world. He feels alone and perhaps betrayed by people he once surrounded himself with (whether it be his former band mates or girlfriends from the past) "I am my mother's only one, it's enough."
I believe he is using the British definition for maroon, which is a "firework used as a danger or warning signal." By doing this, he is showing us how the word love (and all that's in between) can in fact be sour.
I get lost in the rest of the lyrics, but I believe this first song sets the precedent for the rest of the album, which I believe is supposed to be played in the correct order in which he lists them on the album; ultimately each song is part of a narrative that starts with Flume and ends with Re: Stacks (which is his liberation).
After exploring the album a lot more I take back saying "but I believe this first song sets the precedent for the rest of the album, which I believe is supposed to be played in the correct order in which he lists them on the album; ultimately each song is part of a narrative that starts with Flume and ends with Re: Stacks (which is his liberation)."<br /> <br /> ...It is in fact LUMP SUM that sets the mood for the entire album (you can read what I wrote about Lump Sum on that page if you'd like).<br /> <br /> anyway, the songs are in no specific order like I believed them to be!
This makes a lot of sense to me. Especially, because when I figure in the part about the loons. Loons make this really pretty sound, but it also sounds kind of sad or like it too could be a warning signal.