In This Shirt

"lost in our rainbow" I think it signifies how he was consumed in the peaceful bliss and his life was truly vivid and colorful and without this person he is lost. It's as if part of him has died because you no longer have the beauty and warmth of the rainbow to assure that everything is okay. Then he goes on to say "overcast by your shadow" meaning that no matter where he goes, he thinks of this person, he sees this person and time and location don't affect how he feels. However, once he puts this shirt on he has that sense of feeling whole again and with the one he lost. It's about the the sad nostalgia that devours you when you lose someone. "the crane", I assume is the obstacles that have resulted in there own destruction. Probably my favorite line is "There's a thorn, in my side, it's the shame, it's the pride..." He still feels the pain that he can not easily remove and it all due to two different feelings. One of shame, because now everything that has been lost is out of control and pride because how far do we go until we finally decide to stop sacrificing in order to be happy, yet the happiness was a result of being with the other person. It's the irony he must face. This is sad where we see change not being something desired by him. No matter how they 'move on' he thinks about this person every day and with so much pain because all he wants is for things to return. His memories become his enemy because they haunt him with these sad feelings of remorse and emptiness. He is almost numb because he has endured so much. So fucking upsetting, but I think every person goes through this in there life and our experiences are what make us appreciate all we do have. That's it for me.

Can't believe there isn't any more lyrics to this great group, I don't understand half of what they say, otherwise would love to submit them lol Great songs!!!

I love these lyrics - the new BT Infinity advert brought me here, and I'm so glad I came across this song.

I'm not too good at this kind of thing, but when I listened to the lyrics to me it seemed to me that it was written about some kind of relationship/friendship ending or or two people growing apart. I think the person who is singing this maybe holds onto or misses their other half, more than they are missing them.

The lines 'Overcast, by yours shadow, as our worlds move on' suggest that the person writing or singing this is still caught up in this person, but is now in their shadow and therefore out of their thoughts and heart. 'I am lost' is a line that is repeated often in this song. I think this once again backs up my point about this person feeling alone now that their family/friend/lover has left.

The lyrics 'I did send you a note on the wind for to read' and 'To the depths of the soil buried deep in the ground' to me suggest that this person thinks their relationship was meant to be and that they weren't supposed to part. The mentions of nature make me think that the person writing/singing thinks it is natural and should be.

Just an idea...:)

This is my absolute favorite set of lyrics...

I think it's about him and Jake, their relationship has ended he tries to move on but can't (Overcast, by your shadow, as our worlds move on), every now and then he wears a shirt Jake left behind, the shirt may smell of Jake still or just remind him of times together with him.(But in this shirt, I can be you, to be near you for a while) He misses Jake dearly (I am lost) but maybe he didn't realise what Jake meant to him until he was gone.(I am lost, in our rainbow, now our rainbow has gone)

That's what it means to me. But every time I hear this song I think it's beautiful in a melancholy kind of way. The Röyksopp remix is excellent too.

In verse 6, it's Jake not jape.

It's hard for me to hear a song of loss like this about a shirt and not think of the last scene in "Brokeback Mountain" where Ennis is holding Jack's shirt.

First up; this song destroys me every time I listen to it. Usually my emotional reaction to a song lessons pretty significantly after a while, but god this really has stuck with me. It's just so genuinely plaintively longing and hopeless.

Interpretation wise It's definitely Jamie McDermott's relationship with 'Jake' having come to an end, as others here have already noted. My point of contention is whether Jake has left him, whether they grew apart or whether Jake has died.

Pointing toward Jake having left him is the fairly clear 'I awake in the night, to hear the engines purr'; he's waking up to the car starting up, with Jake leaving him in the dead of night. The 'of you and me ever changing, moving on now moving fast' also feels pretty definitive- two men gone their separate ways. And the thorn in his side, the shame and pride, could be that he knows he caused this to happen, he's somehow responsible for (or at least feels he is) the crane knocking down all the things they were.

But the imagery of the note on the wind, and its burial, with the evocative links to earth and soil gives a feeling of death to the whole thing. And really the whole song's tone feels so final- 'I am lost', hearing the echo of his name on the wind. It seems more than having someone you love leave. Sounds like decay.

So my thought would be that in his leaving, Jake dies, and Jamie never gets the chance to redeem himself, doesn't have the option to repair the relationship and is stuck in this state of perpetual self hatred. Bleeding for a year. Needing to tell him how much he loves him, but being totally unable to. Writing it in a note that he knows cannot reach him. Buried deep in the ground.

Anyways, freaking love this song, especially how unabashedly gay it is. I'm normally not one to go in for the whole gay suffering trope, always looking for more positive portrayals in media for a slight self-worth boost/optimistic future, you know? But this set of lyrics is so damn powerful I'm willing to put that aside for a bit.

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I am lost in a rainbow Now our rainbow is gone Overcast by your shadow As our worlds move on

this is a gay couple in a rainbow of love that is now lost. worlds move on with possible death or separation. The unbearable sadness of worlds that were once united so much so as if they were lost in a rainbow, but now lost because that rainbow world is gone.

In this shirt, I can be you To be near you for a while In this shirt, I can be you To be near you for a while

He wears the shirt in order to recapture the feelings and the world.

There's a crane knocking down All those things that we were I awake in the night To hear the engines pout

He lives near the building they used to live in together that is being torn down, and the tearing down of their place together is unbearable.

There's a pain, it does ripple Through my frame, makes me lame There's a thorn in my side It's the shame, it's the prize

He is proud of their love, but ashamed that it is trapping him in the past that is gone.

Of you and me, ever-changing Moving on now, moving fast And this touch must be wanted Must become through your ask

now the pace of loss has increased with time, the loss of their place together.

But I need Jake to tell you That I love you, it never rests And I bled every day now For a year, for a year

I did send you a note On the wind for to read Our names there together Must've fallen like a seed

To the depths of the soil Buried deep in the ground On the wind, I can hear you Call my name, held the sounds

he planted a seed of their love in the ground so that it would over time reach the winds and be transplanted somehow to Jake. (personally i think Jake is dead and that is why their world together is gone)

I am lost, I am lost In a rainbow Now our rainbow is gone I am lost in a rainbow Now our rainbow is gone

I am lost, I am lost I am lost, I am lost I am lost

I don't know if I have ever heard a voice express the loss of love like this voice and these lyrics and this song. I think it is very very hard for him to live, and Jake I think is not on earth anymore.

This is my all time favorite song and i have a very different interpretation of the lyrics than what ive seen people say. In my opinion the song is about war.what i mean is just listening to specific lyrics like “hear the engines purr”. I think its a man that has gone to war and this song is a letter he sending to his love back home. Look at the first lyrics. I am lost in a rainbow. I think hes saying he is lost is lost in the unknown, like he does know whats gunna happen to him. Next lyric is overcast by your shadow. This is him expressing she is always on him mind and it torments him knowing he might not be able to come back as the next lyric states “as our worlds move on”, he’s literally meaning theyr a world apart. The next part with the shirt thing i think he has an heirloom he keeps to think of her with and maby it is a shirt he wears. Then the crane thing. Its a metaphor for how long hes been apart from her they’re memories are fading away. The next part i think is the most obvious. He has to wake up really early so he can move forward in whatever war hes in and so he wakes to hear the engines of trucks or war machines. And i remind you he’s writing this in a letter he says theres a pain it does ripple. Here it’s probably both literal and metaphorical. Hes in war and he’s hurting, hes weak. But also hes hurt because he again doesn’t know if he will come back and that hes been gone for so long. Also im guessing this song is written at a time where the war has been going for a long time. The next couple lyrics are more emotional explanations and such. Then we get to another obvious line. “I dare to tell you that i love you, it never ends. And i bled now every day now for a year for a year” ok. We get a timeline. One year in war. Thats alot of time. A whole year of war. And he bled every day for her hes doing it all for her. Then next lyrics are talking about him trying to give a letter to her but he doesn’t know if she even got it and then he says he can hear her call his name maby in a dream or maby theres a twist to the whole song.. maby he dies there in war and all of this is his last thoughts. When I listen to this song i hear sadness. And loneliness. The song end with him saying he is lost. Lost ina rainbow. In short my thought of this songs story is that hes in war thinking about her and that he dies and never stopped thinking about her which would explain the lost in a rainbow part. Thank you for reading.