“Blue” is a song about a love that is persisting in the discomfort of the person experiencing the emotion. Ed Sheeran reflects on love lost, and although he wishes his former partner find happiness, he cannot but admit his feelings are still very much there. He expresses the realization that he might never find another on this stringed instrumental by Aaron Dessner.
Diamonds in the face of night time
Watch them as they float along
I was up there floating with them
And you know that I am gone
The radio sings a patriot’s song, it’s the devil that you know
Yulia
We were standing on the platform
The favorite sons of history
While you’re back in Prostronaya
Writing in your diary
They flip on switch at mission control and I’m never coming home
Yulia
Oh! I woke up from a fever dream
Oh! Of floating in the salty sea
I’m stranded up here floating along
and my heart beats slow and I hope they
Bring my body back
Yulia
So when they turn the cameras on you
Baby please don’t speak of me
Point up to the dark above you
As they edit me from history
I’m 20 million miles from a comfortable home
And space is very cold
Yulia
There’s nothing out here nothing out here nothing out
nothing out here nothing out here there’s nothing out here
nothing nothing out here nothing out here nothing nothing out
Watch them as they float along
I was up there floating with them
And you know that I am gone
The radio sings a patriot’s song, it’s the devil that you know
Yulia
We were standing on the platform
The favorite sons of history
While you’re back in Prostronaya
Writing in your diary
They flip on switch at mission control and I’m never coming home
Yulia
Oh! I woke up from a fever dream
Oh! Of floating in the salty sea
I’m stranded up here floating along
and my heart beats slow and I hope they
Bring my body back
Yulia
So when they turn the cameras on you
Baby please don’t speak of me
Point up to the dark above you
As they edit me from history
I’m 20 million miles from a comfortable home
And space is very cold
Yulia
There’s nothing out here nothing out here nothing out
nothing out here nothing out here there’s nothing out here
nothing nothing out here nothing out here nothing nothing out
Lyrics submitted by myballetflats
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He was influenced, at least partially, by The Red Stuff, but he mixed his memory of the documentary with an urban legend of the Soviet space program.
The portion of The Red Stuff he's remembering is the deaths of the Soyuz 11, which was recounted by a family member. The men were killed by the vacuum of space when a device meant to regulate cabin pressure malfunctioned on the return. The vessel landed safely on earth but all the Cosmos inside were asphyxiated.
Dan's combining his memory of this documentary with the (proven hoax) urban legend of a doomed Soviet moonshot hastily prepared to beat the US to it. Legend has it that a miscalculation sent the team of Cosmonauts (or singular Cosmonaut, can't remember) wide of the moon and drifting aimlessly in space to await their demise.
Either way, it's an amazing story and a beautiful song, and one of the greatest things Wolf Parade has ever done.