Given the context of the the Vietnam War, "garden's flowers" may be a metaphorical reference to the dead on the U.S. side, or, more specifically, to a single dead soldier who is the father of the "baby" subsequently referred to. The person addressed has a mind that is "full of red" in the sense of being full of thoughts about the spilled blood of the dead lover, and, perhaps, full of rage at his meaningless death, which was based on "lies" about the war and its purposes.
In the next verse, the singer says, "Your eyes, I say your eyes may look like his/Yeah, but in your head, baby/I'm afraid you don't know where it is." This appears incoherent at first, but the person whose eyes may look like "his" may be the child of the singer or person addressed. The person addressed or the singer herself is the dead soldier's lover, a woman who has been left to raise the child on her own. The baby's eyes "look like" the dead soldier's eyes since the child is, in fact, the dead soldier's son or daughter; but the child doesn't know where he is because the father has died in the war and the baby is, of course, too young too understand anything about his/her missing father. The initially unclear reference to "it" rather than "he" admittedly makes this interpretation somewhat doubtful, but if we take "it" as a reference to the war, a secondary meaning could be derived whereby the child does not know where the war is taking place, or, by extension, where his/her father has died. This interpretation would make sense of the final verse, in which the "tears" are "running down [the mother's] breast" as she grieves for the deceased lover and for the father of her child. The mother's friends treat her "like a guest" because she has been traumatized by the death of her child's lover and has thus discovered that the "truth" about the war consists of "lies."
Another interpretation is that the dead soldier is the woman's true love, but she is speaking to an adult lover (rather than a child) -- a lover who cannot understand anything about her situation as a bereaved woman.
A final interpretation would confess that the lyrics themselves are somewhat disordered and cannot be made to make sense.
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In the next verse, the singer says, "Your eyes, I say your eyes may look like his/Yeah, but in your head, baby/I'm afraid you don't know where it is." This appears incoherent at first, but the person whose eyes may look like "his" may be the child of the singer or person addressed. The person addressed or the singer herself is the dead soldier's lover, a woman who has been left to raise the child on her own. The baby's eyes "look like" the dead soldier's eyes since the child is, in fact, the dead soldier's son or daughter; but the child doesn't know where he is because the father has died in the war and the baby is, of course, too young too understand anything about his/her missing father. The initially unclear reference to "it" rather than "he" admittedly makes this interpretation somewhat doubtful, but if we take "it" as a reference to the war, a secondary meaning could be derived whereby the child does not know where the war is taking place, or, by extension, where his/her father has died. This interpretation would make sense of the final verse, in which the "tears" are "running down [the mother's] breast" as she grieves for the deceased lover and for the father of her child. The mother's friends treat her "like a guest" because she has been traumatized by the death of her child's lover and has thus discovered that the "truth" about the war consists of "lies."
Another interpretation is that the dead soldier is the woman's true love, but she is speaking to an adult lover (rather than a child) -- a lover who cannot understand anything about her situation as a bereaved woman.
A final interpretation would confess that the lyrics themselves are somewhat disordered and cannot be made to make sense.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_to_Love_(Jefferson_Airplane_song)