This song is clearly talking about feelings of existentialism – “We were born to bloom, destined to deteriorate” – he is using flowers as a metaphor for humans…
We are organic matter and we all die, but the “blooming” of us represents the beauty of our lives.
He contrasts this with plastic flowers...
[Intro]
We were born to bloom
Destined to deteriorate
No beauty in plastic flowers
No honey made from fake bouquets
We were born to bloom
But we were never meant to stay
No wine from fruit made out of wax
No honey made from fake bouquets
[Verse 1]
What do they say about apples and trees?
How do you grow when you're severed from the roots underneath?
And if the tether of lovе can never truly break
Did it slip from my hands thе day you went away?
Why do they speak about a love that never dies?
And what the fuck do they know about the afterlife?
Have they ever spent the night screaming at the sky
Asking why?
[Chorus]
We were born to bloom
Destined to deteriorate
No beauty in plastic flowers
No honey made from fake bouquets
'Cause we were born to bloom
But we were never meant to stay
No wine from fruit made out of wax
No honey made from fake bouquets
[Verse 2]
What do they say about the heart and its strength?
What do you do when your love rots into rage?
How do you water the garden that famine takes?
How do you feed your soul with dust and clay?
We blossom then wither like the rose
Death written into our blood like poems
A soliloquy of ancient, ancestral pain
The price of love paid over and over again
[Chorus]
We were born to bloom
Destined to deteriorate
No beauty in plastic flowers
No honey made from fake bouquets
'Cause we were born to bloom
But we were never meant to stay
No wine from fruit made out of wax
No honey made from fake bouquets
[Outro]
Love is watching the petals fall
Love is watching the petals fall
Love is watching the petals fall
Love is watching the petals fall
Bloom was written by Valentino Arteaga & Phil Manansala & Alan Ashby & Aaron Pauley.
Bloom was produced by Of Mice & Men.
Of Mice & Men released Bloom on Wed Apr 21 2021.