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Dio – Rainbow In The Dark Lyrics 11 years ago
I think is a song about the feelings caused by depression and how lost you feel when you're depressed. It's a very personal interpretation, because I've felt that way and currently I'm also experiencing those feelings. A good way to describe how really I feel... is "like a rainbow in the dark". If you read closer, some of the lyrics are pretty descriptive:

"I cry out for magic, I feel it dancing in the light"
- Because you see the happiness everywhere, but you can't feel it... sometimes, you think "magic" could solve all your problems and give you a relief.

"There's no sign of the morning coming
You've been left on your own
Like a rainbow in the dark
A rainbow in the dark"
- Because you can't see anything good coming. You're drowned in darkness and tend to isolate or grow apart from your friends or family because they can't understand how you're really feeling... or even they're the ones that left you alone. Soon you become a "rainbow in the dark" and as science and most of you say "a rainbow can't exitst without sunlight" so it's a metaphor for a depressed person, who can't see they're a "rainbow" and is surrounded by darkness at the point they feel like they don't exist or don't want to exist anymore.

"Do your demons, do they ever let you go
When you've tried, do they hide, deep inside
Is it someone that you know"
- With "demons" I think about the addictions, suicidal thoughts or self-harm. Most depressed people try to find ways to avoid their reality and sometimes, they're not the best. Personally, I self-harm and sometimes I want to stop, but I can't. I feel like "my demons are not letting me to go".

"You're just a picture, just an image caught in time"
Yes, because you can't even recognize yourself. You've faded and now you feel empty, you aren't the same anymore.

"Feel the magic, feel it floating in the air
But it's fear, and you'll hear
It calling you beware"
- And this is when everyone says "try, be happy... it gets better, this will come to an end and you will be fine... good things are coming for you" but you can't believe it, you can't feel it. The magic is there, they all can see and feel it but you don't. All you feel is fear and you feel like you can't face the light again.

"No sign of the morning
You're a rainbow in the dark"
- You see no hope anymore.

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