Grouplove: Colours Meaning

Song Released: 2011

Colours Lyrics

I am a man, man, man, man
Up, up in the air
And I run around, round, round, round this down town and act like I don't care.
So when you see me flying by the planet's moon,
You don't need to explain if everything's changed
Just know I'm...

1. anonymous

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   Oct 17th 2011 !⃝

   I think that Colours can be seen as a song about homosexuality/bisexuality. It is seen as OK to some people and not okay to some people. "You don't need to explain if everything's changed just know I'm just like you" can be like how when people come out, people think that they are all of a sudden completely different when the person just wants everyone to see them as the same person that they were before they came out.
   "I pull the switch inside my head.... Suddenly a light appears inside my brain and I think of my ways I think of my days and I know that I have changed" can all be the realization that you have to tell people and that you know that you can handle it, and all the colors symbolize the rainbow, which is a gay symbol.
   "It's the colors you have, not need to be sad, it really ain't that bad" is like, you are gay/bi, it's ok, you're still fine, and it even says "you still have your health," like chill, you're healthy and alive and that's all that matters.
   Then it talks about the guy who shot himself because he couldn't face the truth. People kill themselves all the time for being gay and not being able to accept themselves and not wanting to live any more. It ends with a kind of parallel structure and it says if everything's changed just know that you don't know, which is like when you tell someone who is happily hetero that you have some same sex feelings, they don't know all of the pressure and anxiety and possibly hatred and all the other feelings that you have and they don't know how other people are treating you and how you fear telling people, so they really don't know anything. I think the song is really a beautiful analogy for being gay or bi.
2. anonymous

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   Sep 23rd 2011 !⃝

   I think this means that people are different and the each have different colors.

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway

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