Of Mice & Men Release New Song ‘Bloom,’ the Title Track off Their Upcoming EP

Of Mice and Men are back with “Bloom,” a powerhouse new song from the metalcore mainstays that acts as the introduction to their upcoming EP of the same name, out May 28. The three-song collection follows another short EP the band released earlier this year, Timeless.

As the group revealed in January, Timeless was the first in a successive series of succinct releases that will eventually make up the band’s next studio album. Bloom, its title track a visceral reminder of the kind of musical power Of Mice and Men can dole out, is the second part of that series. The act’s previous full-length effort, Earth and Sky, arrived in 2019.

Listen to the new song, read its lyrics and see Bloom‘s cover art and track listing down toward the bottom of this post.

“‘Bloom’ is a song about grieving the death of a family member,” Of Mice and Men singer and bassist Aaron Pauley explains. “It’s about understanding, through that loss, that grief is not only love in its most visceral and wildest form, but that it’s also the ultimate price we pay to experience such love. To know profound grief is to have known profound love. Nothing and no one lasts forever. Love isn’t a bouquet of plastic flowers; it’s watching the petals fall.”

Timeless was the band’s first release with their new label home SharpTone Records. It contained the driving rocker “Obsolete.”

Keep up with each week’s new songs by following Loudwire’s ‘Weekly Wire’ Spotify playlist, featuring 50 tracks with updates each Friday afternoon.

Here are the lyrics to Of Mice and Men’s “Bloom”:

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

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 love can never truly break
Did it slip from my hands the 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?

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

What do they say about the heart and it’s strength?
What do you do when your love rots to 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

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

Love is watching the petals fall.

Of Mice and Men, “Bloom”

Of Mice and Men, Bloom EP Album Art + Tracklist

1. “Levee”
2. “Bloom”
3. “Pulling Teeth”