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...
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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Oh shit, you're right!
Oh shit, you're right!