The band posted this about the song on social media:
The song is about the complacency of a species that is at odds with its own needs, from issues as small as staying in toxic interpersonal relationships to the bigger ones, the ones that lead to destruction at a larger scale, like staying in relat...
[Verse 1]
I'm unhappy, I hold tight
I have a win, so we have a fight
When I'm up, you get low
I want to dance the night away
You wanna drive us home
[Pre-Chorus]
I blink an imprint of the ceiling
I want this feeling
In the file
You know exactly what I need
You wanna hurt my feelings
I wanna make you cry
[Chorus]
So plant the garden, woah oh oh
But poison the water, woah oh oh no
That's what you get
I told you so
[Verse 2]
Remember while you're driving nails into the ground
That it doesn't mean a thing
If you're gonna burn it down
You know exactly what I need
I like it when you get cold
You get off when I get mean, so
[Chorus]
Plant the garden, woah oh oh
But poison the water, woah oh oh no
That's what you get
I told you so
[Interlude]
[Chorus]
So plant the garden, woah oh oh ohoh
But poison the water, woah oh oh no
That's what you get
I told you so
[Outro]
I told ya
It only takes a couple things to grow ehhehhehhehh
Hey, and baby I told ya
Baby I told you so
Baby I told you so, ooh
Baby I told you
Baby I told you so, oooh oohah oohahoohah
Uhh uhhuhhh uhhuhhuhhuhhuhhuhhuhh
You reap what you sow
And baby I told ya so
Plant the Garden was written by Veronica Stewart-Frommer & Eric Gabriel & Marlo Shankweiler & Lucas Saur.
Plant the Garden was produced by Sam Evian.
Melt released Plant the Garden on Tue Jun 25 2024.