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RM can’t be stopped when it comes to the rollout of his debut solo album, “Indigo.” Following the release of the project and its lead single, “Wild Flower,” on Dec. 2, the BTS leader is already bringing fans another music video. This time for the track “Still Life,” which features vocals from the group’s frequent collaborator Anderson .Paak and a message about always moving forward while leaving one’s eternal mark on the world.
RM’s “Still Life” Meaning
Before his performance of “Still Life” for NPR’s Tiny Desk concert series, RM opened up about a visit to an art museum that inspired him to write thing song. “I saw a title called ‘Still Life.’ Actually, a lot of paintings were titled ‘Still Life.’ And I felt really strange because it was like the painting in the 19th century by Monet or Van Gogh or Cézanne. So the flower, as a model of the painting, is dead a century ago, but it’s still alive in the painting by the painters themselves. So they gave the eternal birth or life to the flowers by painting. So when I see ‘Still Life’ like a canvas, because my life is like a canvas. I’m exhibiting my life to the whole world everywhere . . . but ‘Still Life’ is stuck on the canvas, but it’s alive and eternal, but it’s still moving forward. So it’s about a still life that’s still moving forward.”
RM’s “Still Life” Music Video
The “Still Life” music video finds RM traveling to an unknown destination on a train. The train often freezes in place, but RM never stops moving, leaving still-life versions of himself dissolving into fragments behind him as he grooves through the train delivering his lyrics. This reflects the song’s main theme and inspiration, as RM delivers the lines (per the YouTube subtitles), “I’m still life, but I’m movin’ / Just live now, goin’ forward / The unstopping still-life.”
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RM’s “Still Life” Lyrics in English
INTRO
I’m still life
I’m still life
I’m still life
I’m still life
VERSE 1
I’m still life, but I’m movin’
Just live now, goin’ forward yeah
The unstopping still-life
Blooming once again my flower
Gimme no name cuz I’m untitled
My life on constant display
It’s still life, still, life
The past’s gone, the future’s unknown
Catching my breath on a crossroads
Wanna be free of this canvas frame
The shades that yesterday and tomorrow cast upon me
Unfazed, I just live errtime
24/7 yeah baby I’m on time
I just live the moment, every second and every minute
Putting my all on the line, what you know about me huh?
CHORUS
I’m still life
Ya can’t lock me in the frame, I’m movin’
I’m still life
Life is better than the death, I’ll prove it
I’m still life, but I’m movin’
Just live now, goin’ forward yeah
The unstopping still-life
Blooming once again my flower
I’m still life, but I’m movin’
Just live now, goin’ forward yeah
The unstopping still-life
Yo I never stop bay, let’s get it now
VERSE 2
Errday is my day 1, brotha
Baby I buy time with money
Don’t listen to the haters, it’ll hurt your ears
It’s always the fools putting their lives on the line for the online
Trendsetter? I’m a friend, better
Getting sick of the go-and-getter
Turns out, things didn’t go the way you wanted
I’m living well unlike the way you wished for it to be huh
94 livin’ in Hannam Blvd
91 look at my royal road
No need to go to Gangnam Blvd anymore
You’d better move out, your rent is overdue
What a poor flex hon’ look at yo chain
Me rather do it like “Look at my stain”
Simply living the moment like those pesky weeds
Like a flower, but I never stay
CHORUS
I’m still life
Ya can’t lock me in the frame, I’m movin’
I’m still life
Life is better than the death, I’ll prove it
I’m still life, but I’m movin’
Just live now, goin’ forward yeah
The unstopping still-life
Blooming once again my flower
I’m still life, but I’m movin’
Just live now, goin’ forward yeah
The unstopping still-life
Yo I never stop bay, let’s get it now
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