K-Pop Lyrics Explained: What Does The Rose's 'Childhood' Really Mean?

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This week, we're diving into a song that has been hitting us right in the feels all week, The Rose's 'Childhood'. 'Childhood' is the pre-release single from the group's upcoming first full-length album, "HEAL" and just like the title suggests, it explores a prelapsarian purity in a post-lapsarian world. This is the kind of song that makes us wonder how such incredible artists fatefully came together to create an even more phenomenal group. The Rose is a blessing to this world, a gift of the muses to us mere mortals, and we could not be more thankful for them.

'Childhood' starts off with a sketch of life, as it was then, on the dark canvas of present time. A world that once seemed to rest in the palm of our hands is now far gone because we, as humans, have let it revolve away. We are so taken up