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I am grey, still on the page
Oh colour me in
Just an outline, sketchy but fine
Oh colour me in
If green is chasing the hills over miles
If blue is pursuing the sky
See if the red of your heart doesn't mind
Where you begin to colour me in
Something new and nothing to do
Then I'm just the idea
I must be real, 'cause somehow I feel
That I'm just the idea
Let's share the blue of the towering sky
The green of the hills that roll by
Leave the red of your heart to decide
If you cannot choose which colour to use
I'll always wait, it's never too late
To colour me in
To colour me in
Today or next year, I'll always be here
If you want to colour me in
Oh colour me in
Just an outline, sketchy but fine
Oh colour me in
If green is chasing the hills over miles
If blue is pursuing the sky
See if the red of your heart doesn't mind
Where you begin to colour me in
Something new and nothing to do
Then I'm just the idea
I must be real, 'cause somehow I feel
That I'm just the idea
Let's share the blue of the towering sky
The green of the hills that roll by
Leave the red of your heart to decide
If you cannot choose which colour to use
I'll always wait, it's never too late
To colour me in
To colour me in
Today or next year, I'll always be here
If you want to colour me in
Lyrics submitted by Chip Spitz
Colour Me In Lyrics as written by Patricia Ann Keenan James Cargill
Lyrics © WARP MUSIC LIMITED, Universal Music Publishing Group
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This song always puts me in another place. When I first heard this song I imagined a person, or the concept of a person, incomplete and in the mind. This person is perfection, and the details are filled in by you;("I am gray, still on the page/Just an outline, sketchy but fine"). It's like this person's rough existence is there, but incomplete. She is real, but only in your mind;("I must be real cause somehow I feel/That I'm just the ideal") She is subjective perfection in your mind, and that gives her life and proves that she is real. When she says "I'll always wait, it's never too late...Today or next year, I'll always be here, if you want to color me in" that could be taken as, you can take all the time you need to figure out what perfection is for you. To fill in the picture of perfection with color eventually, and have it someday. It is the living, subconscious dream of perfection that we all have, be it a person, a beautiful place, a meaning, or state of being. We need to set the ideal, and set out to find it.