RM’s debut solo studio album, “Indigo,” is right here, and followers are already moved by the considerate and emotional themes that play out via his poetic lyrics. Listeners will discover that the new song he teased with Pharrell isn’t on the album, and that is as a result of the mission was fastidiously curated (however followers can positively anticipate that collaboration quickly).
RM’s lead single, “Wild Flower,” sits at observe No. 9 on “Indigo,” so chances are you’ll wish to begin listening to the album now, as a result of in a observe to followers on Weverse, RM requested them to hearken to the album from starting to finish to expertise it the best way he meant. Afterward, you may press play on his live performance from behind NPR’s Tiny Desk and watch his new music video for “Wild Flower,” a observe that explores RM’s outlook on life and combined emotions about his success and fame.
RM’s “Wild Flower” Meaning
In verse one, RM raps, “Even earlier than the beginning I imagined / An finish the place I may applaud and smile / That’s what I wanted for,” in accordance with YouTube’s English translation. It appears RM hasn’t but been capable of attain the purpose the place he can look again and applaud and smile, and he could not ever get there, as he goes on to ship the traces, “When every thing I believed in grew distant / When all this fame became shackles / Please take my want away from me.”
Despite his unfulfilled needs, RM nonetheless strives to embrace his true self, and these existential themes echo all through “Indigo.” In the refrain, sung fantastically by Youjeen, RM encourages himself (and, in doing so, his listeners) to shine by lighting a “flowerwork.”
RM’s “Wild Flower” Music Video
The video that accompanies “Wild Flower” is a visible masterpiece. It sees RM ship his verses in numerous scenic however caustic areas: the attention of a storm, a darkish area the place fireplace embers fall from the sky, and a packed stadium — all juxtaposed in opposition to pictures of the BTS chief standing in a serene lavender area. Fittingly, fireworks explode all through the video, a callback to RM’s encouraging time period “flowerworks.”
Watch RM’s “Wild Flower” music video under, then take a look at the lyrics in English to grasp the total impression of the tune.
RM’s “Wild Flower” Lyrics in English
INTRO Flower area, that is the place I’m at Open land, that is the place I’m at No identify, that is what I’ve No disgrace, I’m on my grave
When your ft do not contact the bottom When your individual coronary heart underestimates you When your goals devour you When you are feeling you are not your self All these instances
VERSE 1 I yearned for the flames I yearned for a good looking fall Even earlier than the beginning I imagined An finish the place I may applaud and smile That’s what I wanted for
When every thing I believed in grew distant When all this fame became shackles Please take my want away from me
No matter what it takes Oh let me be myself Oh on daily basis and each night time Persistin’ ache and felony thoughts Nights the beating of my coronary heart stored me up The mournful crescent moon hung past the window I do want me a stunning night time Over my standing is an outsized life Desperately holding onto a balloon drifting by I ask the place you might be proper now Where you go, the place’s your soul Yo the place’s your dream?
CHORUS Gonna scatter throughout that sky Light a flower, flowerwork Flower flowerwork Gonna shine throughout that sky Light a flower, flowerwork Flower flowerwork
VERSE 2 Where’s my finish lastly gonna be Everything’s so exhausting, from A to Z When’s this wretched masks lastly gonna come off Yeah me no hero, me no villain I’m barely something Idling repeats, recollections turning vicious Lying in a area, I set my sights onto the skies Now I can not bear in mind what I needed so badly I trusted I used to be completely happy, now a mere reminiscence
Yeah I been goin’, it doesn’t matter what’s in entrance No matter what it could be Memories of holding onto daybreak’s edge and spitting issues out Society’s all for the loudest voice And right here I’m, nonetheless talking silence It’s an apart, a ship in full bloom To face all the unfairness and misunderstandings I do not care a lot for being tossed into the air Grounded alone two ft Amongst the flowers with out names I can not go to the celebrities once more, I can not Underfoot, I simply go To a vacation spot and not using a objective Not even realizing my very own disappointment Even making pals with the shadows I be gone
CHORUS Gonna scatter throughout that sky Light a flower, flowerwork Flower flowerwork Gonna shine throughout that sky Light a flower, flowerwork Flower flowerwork
VERSE 3 Paused and turned out to be gloriously barefooted Nothing was ever meant to be mine And do not inform me such as you gotta be somebody Because I’ll by no means be like them (Light a flower)
Yeah, my begin was poetry My one and solely power and dream that protected me to this point Burning fireworks to flowerworks Boyhood to eternity I’ll keep in this barren area Ah, I’ll return sometime
CHORUS Gonna scatter throughout that sky Light a flower, flowerwork Flower flowerwork Gonna shine throughout that sky Light a flower, flowerwork Flower flowerwork
OUTRO Flower area, that is the place I’m at Open land, that is the place I’m at No identify, that is what I’ve No disgrace, I’m on my grave When your ft do not contact the bottom When your individual coronary heart underestimates you When your goals devour you When you are feeling you are not your self All these instances
